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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (24697)	11/24/2001 8:29:43 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 52237

Hi Hawk, I've been really enjoying the pas d'deux between you and Lee here at SA-II. Reminds me of some of our bouts on FADG. Re: What should be drawn from this conversation is that US foreign policy doesn't operate in a vacuum, and is often reactive to events which were not of our making. If I might say, where I see you consistently going wrong is to focus on the Establishment's house organs like Rand, the University you attended (Pepperdine, or perhaps Claremont, by chance?) and your rather narrow view, IMVHO, that U.S. foreign policy is something that is handled at the State Department. As I've stated previously, more foreign policy is made by the DoD and the U.S. Trade Representative than will ever be made at State. That's why I believe it is important to not put too much emphasis on Colin Powell's role in policy going forward. Others will have far more impact on our actions during the course of the present Administration. BTW, Lee is correct about the U.S. abandoning Castro. The reason for this is because Castro wanted to clean up the casinos and prostitution in Cuba, and this was anathema to our mobs and their friends in the CIA. As usual, profits and corrupt business set our agenda. Not anything else. An interesting history of this episode is written quite convincingly in Sally Denton's "The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America". amazon.com I'm convinced you'll learn more about U.S. foreign policy by studying who owns Las Vegas, and how they run it, than you will from any sized stack of official U.S. State Department pronouncements, which are, as you suggest, nearly totally reactive. The proactive and crucially important American policy is made elsewhere. <smile> JM2C, Ray