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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (131989)	9/27/2001 7:16:25 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

Skeet: I want to make it clear that I am pleased with the handling of this crisis so far -- I think that cooler heads HAVE prevailed by and large and if I was polled I would give Bush high marks for his performance under the most difficult circumstances. What concerns me is that the worst risks we run are the most obvious and yet the easiest to overlook -- an overthrow of the Saudi and Pakistani governments for example would be devastating foreign policy setbacks. The US is not the most adept country in the world at foreign policy, for various reasons -- we need to get much better at it. The US is proud of its military capability, and for good reason. But it not a substitute for sound foreign policy, and if used in the absence of sound foreign policy it can backfire. I think this is pretty well understaood in Washington. I hope it is understood by the American public -- and I actually think maybe it is more understood now than at any time before. More effectie foreign policy might have saved a generation of Americans and the Vietnamese from a bloody and pointless war. To the credit of the United States, we never gave in to the temptation to nuke Hanoi -- and you can be sure there were those in high places who suggested this course of action.