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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (37131)	8/11/2002 10:57:39 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I'm not saying there isn't an argument there to be made, but the Democrats have not been making it. How could containment be reestablished? How could diplomatic options be exhausted without sucking us into the quicksand of endless farcical inspections? I don't hear much thought behind the arguments. You are certainly talking to the wrong person when you ask for a defense of the Dems on this issue. I understand the politics they are playing; don't agree; and don't like it. But, unfortunately, they don't ask me. I also hear your points and they are good ones. But they don't include the full cast of the opposite ones. Which are the full gamut of questions about going it alone: precedent establishing preemptive strikes, no help from sympathetic countries when things go bad, as they will; no help with occupation, which appears to be necessary; etc. And, also, of course, the fact that I distrust this crew more each month. I thought their response to 9-11 in the first few months was surprisingly almost perfect. Now it's not focused, contradictory, lost is too strong a word. I remember the not so old mantra that the Bush foreign policy team was superb but the economic team wasn't ready for prime time. It's clear the econ guys still have a long way to go to match Rubin et al. But, what's surprising now is that the foreign policy side of things is in disarray. One sign. The note in some article that's been passed around that so long as Bush fails to justify the action to the US populace and to the allies, it looks like revenge for papa.