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To: energyplay who wrote (26468)	12/23/2002 6:00:15 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 74559

Hello energyplay, you may well be right. I just do not know enough, or in fact anything at all about that part of the world other than what I have been told, and thus my indeterminate or at best ambivalent script. I know I do not know the full implications and consequences of what is apparently to take place, engaged in by folks on both sides who may know more, not so much about the truth but about Internet accessible facts. Yes, I know Saddam must not be allowed the bomb, but then I say get rid of Saddam. Should the crazy (Saddam is not crazy, just bad, but the N.Korean leader is mad as a hatter) in N.Korea be allowed to keep the bomb? No, it is best that he is not allowed. How best to excise the bombs from crazies? I do not know. Invite him out of the country and have a heart-to-heart talk? I do have a UK pal who is managing the largest foreign invested enterprise in Pakistan, and by his report, it is simply not fun to live in a theocracy (if Pakistan qualifies as such). So, if the leaders of these theocracies are saying I must live in the way they dictate, then there is a problem. If, OTOH, they are saying their own people must live in a manner they dictate, then I have less of a problem, and their people have more of a problem. I am, by nature, not much of a ‘maximally intrusive’ interventionist, believing more in leveraging other available options and resources, because it gets less tiring, thus more sustainable, even as it allows more flexibility over a longer elapsed time, allowing deliberation, experimentation, and reflective observation. The above description can be applied to Chinese medicine, but not so much to Dristan. In the mean nasty time, I noticed that one of the several once-every-10-minutes CNBCAsia station break channel advertisement is prominently featuring bricks of gold piled high in the background, and a hand handling one brick (piling it on the bigger pile) in the foreground. If they keep this up, eventually the message will sink in. I am hardly cowering in fear, but I do believe 2003 will be interesting on this thread, the endless cocktail party. Chugs, Jay