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To: D. Long who wrote (46849)	9/25/2002 12:26:23 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 281500

Our "allies" absolutely should not be allowed to think they have a veto on US foreign policy in matters deemed to be pressing national security concerns. I suspect our point of disagreement is not at a dichotomous one but a continuous one. That is, somewhere along a spectrum of important to "pressing" national security concerns, our own interests supersede global ones. I would guess, given our exchanges over Iraq, that we might put the tipping point at a different place. I don't consider the Iraq issue has passed the tipping point, yet, and, in fact, it now looks as if the Blair stuff pushes the urgency of the issue back a notch or two, i.e., makes it a bit less urgent.