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To: Dale Baker who wrote (8002)	9/16/2001 6:14:29 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 23153

On the Horns of a Dilemma - Steven Myer on the nature of our imponderable choices Merci Dale, Your points are well taken. Here's an editorial from today Telegraph that I think has a lot to say about the horrid choices facing the Bush team. Unless we miraculously thread the needle on this one, we are about to witness a remarkable realignment of the political world. <Snip> The trap is baited for the US, and it is drawn into it by this central dilemma. What else can it do? What else could Britain do when faced with comparable historical quandaries? Even with all our knowledge today of what was to come, could any of us now retrospectively advise better courses than those Britain took in either or 1914 or 1939, ones which would be free of catastrophically counterproductive consequence? No course existed then, and nor does one exist now. To question US policy is to aid the terrorists; but any meaningful revenge by the US might have the same result. We are back to that place of chaos, twice visited in the last century, where consequence runs free of human control, where wisdom seems to be of no avail, and evil seems master of all. <End Snip> Full text is available here: dailytelegraph.co.uk