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To: stockman_scott who wrote (53324)	10/20/2002 1:02:32 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

If we blame every terrorist attack on Al Qaeda, if we universalize what are often local animosities and assign every explosive charge and petrol bomb to America's particular enemies, we shall miss our target. This was Al Qaeda; Al Qaeda says so, even the Guardian reports it. Can we not agree on known facts? I guess not, if your real aim is to prove that nothing the Bush adminstration says can possibly be true.

To: stockman_scott who wrote (53324)	10/20/2002 9:47:17 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

The Wrong War at the Wrong Time By TONY JUDT Editorial The New York Times October 20, 2002 Just a superb argument. Judt's pieces in the New York Review of Books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have been, imo, the best written on the topic. The argument here is just as good.

To: stockman_scott who wrote (53324)	10/20/2002 12:31:33 PM
From: jcky	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

This is a very thoughtful and well written piece by Judt. I hope this administration is listening. It would seem common sense to contain the current threat of Ismlamic fundamentalists by preventing the spread of their influence upon Islamic nation-states which have not taken upon extremist ideology in their governance. This would implying safeguarding Islamic nations already with nuclear capabilities (i.e. Pakistan) and stabilizing existing Islamic nations which we consider more moderate and less threatening (i.e. Indonesia) from falling into the domain of the Islamic fundamentalists. By losing focus on the war against terror without defining what terrorism is, who the terrorists are, and the scope of the conflict against terror, this administration runs into the difficulty of engaging too many wars (including potential opponents who may really not be our adversaries as in the participants of a civil war who have been painted as terrorists for political gains or our war with Iraq) simultaneously and waging a battle that is counterproductive with our initial goal of neutralizing al-Qaida. I find it difficult to swallow that individually, members of the Bush inner circle are very intelligent and bright; but collectively, they have devised a clumsy, ambiguous, and dangerous policy to counter the threat of terrorism.