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To: Dayuhan who wrote (57191)	11/14/2002 8:28:27 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I hope you are right about western products being "bait" for western values. I'm skeptical. But would root for your view to be correct. The question here is this: did we “forswear” a military response in order to appease, or because we lacked the will needed for a military response, or because we recognized that a military response was not likely to be effective against this particular threat? I think it amounted to appeasement in fact. Though likely no one consciously intended that.

To: Dayuhan who wrote (57191)	11/14/2002 10:34:30 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Every year of peace makes them weaker and us stronger. These phenomena do not in themselves assure victory, but if we recognize and exploit them victory can come at a lower cost. They know this too, and the results of their desperation may not remain localized, especially once they have nukes. Do not romanticize the Cold War! The world lived for forty years on the knife edge of a US-Soviet war. Fortunately for us the Russian leaders were conservative thinkers and not fanatics. This is not true of Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden. Once we decided not to take out Stalin in 1946, we had no choice but to hope that deterrence would contain the USSR. It did at the end, but at very great cost. We do not have to suffer the costs of deterrence in Iraq, so why risk waiting to see what a nuclear-armed Saddam Hussein will think he can do?