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To: American Spirit who wrote (67231)	1/3/2003 9:54:41 AM
From: Fred Levine	Respond to of 70976

American-- I think that all politicians lie, and that some lying is necessary for political effectiveness. However, my questions re: Bush is whether he is effective. Clearly, we are losing, or even have lost, the good will of the world because of his simple and bellicose stands. Thank god for my classmate, Colin Powell (even if we never met) for putting moderation into the formula, and being a counterbalance to Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Rice. The whole Korean situation probably could have been averted with positive engagement as Clinton had, rather than the simple mirror-image (to Bin Laden) shrieks of "evil'. Bush has so alienated S. Korea that a substantial number of them are rooting for the North-- even tho S. Koreans are the most threatened by nuclear war. Without Powell, they would be even more intransigent. I have been reading the Arab press and Saddam has used the N. Korean confrontation to encourage Arab states to gain nuclear arms. He stated that only then could they negotiate with the power of the US. If we now kiss N. Korea's butt, which probably will happen, that will add credibility to Saddam's claim. fred