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To: JohnM who wrote (18981)	2/16/2002 2:47:16 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi John, Re: Polls - Understood correctly, they are wonderful tools. Well, my view is that the hoi polloi are so intentionally ill-informed that their opinions cannot be relied upon for a clear and sensible foreign policy. I leave domestic policy out of this particular discussion. Foreign policy must necessarily be nuanced and ambiguous. It cannot be as black and white as Bush 43 portrayed in his State of the Enron speech. I, for one, would fall into his "out" group. Inasmuch as I am not entirely in favor of the direction he's taking us WRT the "Axle of Evil". For instance, North and South Korea were making kissy-face at the end of 2000, with family reunions and business ventures being explored. The Bush team put the kibosh on this because we needed the "enemy" to justify bloated War Department budget requests. This is cynical and dishonest. I must be an enemy to see it this way. I must be in the terrorists camp, according to the simple-minded logic of the Bush doctrine. But I cannot accept his point of view at all. Policy is far too complex for that cowboy thinking. -Ray