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To: FaultLine who wrote (58264)	11/23/2002 8:04:39 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

well...this is thread bloat, OK? FL, it may be "bloat" but I believe Nukeit is merely expressing the frustrations of many folks, including myself, towards those who want peace, but have no alternative solutions towards creating that peace. They constantly complain, but offer little in the way of realistic or creative proposals that the conflicting parties are willing to accept. And IMO, much of the problems related to Foreign Affairs today, is a deliberate willingness by leaders to appease dictators and tyrants in order to avoid conflict rather than just taking a firm stance, or being content to let more powerful nations do their "dirty work" (while never missing an opportunity to take "pot shots" at that power). These are leaders who are willing to welcome and bestow legitimacy to terrorists like Arafat, who once hijacked their planes, blew up their airports, and targeted their civilians. They are the leaders who later caved into that terrorism and hitched their international policies to his corrupt and tyrannical agenda. This seems to be the case with Saddam Hussein as well.. The French, Germans, Russians, and Chinese all have tied their policies to his regime.. Yet these were the same folks who railed over US support for Somoza (despite his not being nearly as evil, or a regional threat to other countries), or Pinochet.. Why these "peace activists" hitch their agendas to such despots, I'll never understand. I figure they're the sames ones who would be prefessing peace even were Attila the Hun running rampant through the world.. But they are the same people who will be the first to complain when our military, or intelligence services fail to detect or stop terrorist attacks... I long for some of these peaceniks to offer us their REALISTIC proposals for achieving peace without the use (or threatened use) of military power. Hawk