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To: LindyBill who wrote (45276)	9/19/2002 4:49:42 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

It should be to reassess the need for our troop presence in Europe The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things. Am I being a pain in the ass when I keep bringing up the fact that one of Dubya's campaign promises was that the US would no longer be the policeman of the world? I expect he was thinking about Kosovo when he said that, but I have read good things about our relationship with the Muslims there recently. They are very happy that we kept Milosovic from killing them. And the Palestinians love Milosovic. Go figure. Just this week we read about how the South Koreans want us out of South Korea. Can we simultaneously wage a war against terrorism and bring the boys home? What exactly are we doing? Last year - before 9/11 - Jay Chen convinced me that the Pax Americana was a Good Thing for the rest of the world. I believe it. But I keep getting cognitive dissonance. Here in Washington we talk about "mission creep." That's when the thing you were tasked to do keeps morphing and engulfing everything else. Ah, it's late, or too early, going back to bed.