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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (64228)	1/3/2003 1:25:53 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Appeasement processes often do lower the level of conflict, in the short term. Their long-term consequences (talk about perverse incentives!) leave something to be desired, however. The term "appeasement" seems to spring readily to some folks' minds these days. The term itself lies embedded within a foreign policy strategy that is basically a shoot first and ask questions later policy. When negotiations, talking, working with others can produce a settlement without the killing that comes with warfare, without the growing hostility against the US that's now taking center stage, seems to me negotiations are far preferable. That's just a general attitude toward foreign policy. As for NK, where the options are apparently quite different than those in Iraq, it's, perhaps, even more important.