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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (257819)	5/22/2002 11:42:56 PM
From: bonnuss_in_austin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Hi Charleymane...why do 'your' words seem... ...so 'cut & paste?' Maybe it's just me ... bia

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (257819)	5/23/2002 12:15:24 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

BLOWBACK Charleymane, Now I know this will fall on deaf ears, but there is a terrific book called "Blowback" that I've read and I highly recommend. It describes the sort of hubristic nature of American foreign policy that makes 911 incidents inevitable: amazon.com Here's a blurb: If the 20th century was the American century, the 21st century may be a time of reckoning for the United States. Chalmers Johnson, an authority on Japan and its economy, offers a troubling prognosis of what's to come. Blowback--the title refers to a CIA neologism describing the unintended consequences of American activity--is a call for the United States to rethink its position in the world. "The evidence is building up that in the decade following the end of the Cold War, the United States largely abandoned a reliance on diplomacy, economic aid, international law, and multilateral institutions in carrying out its foreign policies and resorted much of the time to bluster, military force, and financial manipulation," writes Johnson. "The world is not a safer place as a result." Individual chapters focus on Okinawa (where American servicemen were accused of raping a 12-year-old girl in "Asia's last colony"), the two Koreas, China, and Japan. The result is a liberal-leaning (and Asia-centric) call for the United States to disengage from many of its global commitments. Critics will call Johnson an isolationist, but friends (perhaps admirers of Patrick Buchanan's A Republic, Not an Empire) will say he simply speaks good sense. All will agree he is an earnest voice: "I believe our very hubris ensures our undoing." --John J. Miller --

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (257819)	5/23/2002 12:31:44 AM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

The real issue is this: the worst intelligence failure in American history needs to be investigated by someone other than the intel community. But that is dismissed as nonsense, by an administration that hasn't fired or even identified the incompetents. Further, they add fuel by saying there's more to come, and nothing can be done about it. Not a popular message, when you tell Americans they have to sit there and take it. They may as well throw in the towel, unless they change that message. The rest of it is byplay. The tone of remarks by Cheney are of a royal court: "Any questions are dispicable! And unpatriotic!" Not good. The way to deal with questions that cause you problems, is to answer them the best you can, not stonewall, excuse, or change the subject. The idea of painting this as an exclusively partisan issue futher clouds credibility, when Republicans also ask for the investigation. Americans aren't satisfied. That's understandable. But the secrecy and royal runaround of the administration isn't.