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To: stockman_scott who wrote (54668)	10/25/2002 1:52:36 PM
From: bela_ghoulashi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Terrorism is not going to go away, period. Neither will the hatred. The hatred is less about us than the culture that foments it. I think Bush's advisors understand the "big picture" with perfect clarity. I think they grasp the risks. I think they realize that unintended consequences naturally fall in the wake of any course of action...including appeasement, disengagement, buy-offs, and signed treaties.

To: stockman_scott who wrote (54668)	10/25/2002 2:16:01 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

...unfortunately, the NeoCon policy makers advising Dubya don't seem to understand 'the big picture' and all the potential UNINTENDED CONSEQUNCES of a 'pre-emptive strike' to engineer regime change in Iraq I think they realize that they are proposing a risky and destabilizing course of action (incidently, just the opposite of the desires of the oil men, to whom stability is all-important). They believe that the kind of stability which brings us a 9/11 has become unaffordable for the US, and see that our so-called "moderate Arab allies" were every bit as responsible for it as our openly avowed radical Arab enemies. The hatred of the Islamists, being irrational at its base, cannot be assuaged by rational policy adjustments; however, their contempt for the US -- thought just as important for recruitement -- can be changed into fear.