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To: Dayuhan who wrote (17130)7/11/2002 9:48:05 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 21057
 
as it would to a whole lot of others who
would be most surprised to find themselves classified as such.

Including me.

Many of us feel that military force should only be used as a last resort, to confront critical problems that can be resolved no other way.
Sounds good to me.

We dislike the idea of unilateral military action
That depends.

seek to shed the cowboy image
If the Europeans can't handle it, they can find another planet.

If one accepts traditional definitions, this is an archetypally "conservative" position: cautious, moderate, risk-averse.
"Conservative" actually has two meaning in politics. One is thaqt. The other is as a euphemism for right wing.