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To: FaultLine who wrote (9109)	11/6/2001 4:57:42 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 281500

Hi FL, Re: Read some of the responses. The piece was not well received as I recall. You have a way with understatement. It was quite interesting to read the reactions, off the top of the head, of so many contributors to the thread. 12 replies. Oy. Ms. Roy (oh, yes, not a single hot-headed American patriot picked up on the fact that the writer was a woman) seems to have struck a raw nerve somehow. Perhaps the snide Madeleine Albright reference? Or perhaps the fact that we really don't have a set agenda for this war, now do we? Anyway, the Andrew Sullivan piece you referenced: Message 16460220 was painful to read. Talk about someone who really needed some time to gather his wits about him..... But, FL, you sidestepped the question, are we there yet? Do we still have the same agenda for this war as we did at the end of September? It would seem that we've developed more of an ally in Vladimir Putin than we'd expected to, that the meeting between Putin and Bush at the Crawford Ranch is going to be a useful exercise. Though one has to wonder what we've traded off for the chance to get the 3 Baltic States into NATO. Talk about an outrage to the Russian Empire, yet, it seems to be becoming a fait accompli. And things aren't going badly at all in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. We're paying off like a slot machine to make use of airbases there. What of our buddy Mussaraf? He's taking a heck of risk, one might have though, in heading to the U.N. to chit-chat. He must be highly confident of his reins on the state. A good sign of stability. So, I see it much as I did on Sept. 29, the date of the article. We needed to mount an immediate land campaign or wait until spring. In the event, we'll wait. Just like every smart army in the Hindu Kush. Only we'll be in cushier winter quarters. Call me in the springtime. I'm taking the winter off. Hasta, Ramon