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To: Rollcast... who wrote (64284)	1/3/2003 7:30:53 PM
From: Rascal	Respond to of 281500

Tell me in one sentence why this matters and maybe I can get it. "Carrot and stick" negotiations only work when all parties know that the stick exists and that there is resolve to use it (if necessary). "Resolve to use it...." This is the problem. The scenarios don't work. WIth NK. The Foreign Policy is "Let the closer allies pressure them and help starve them to collapse." With Iraq we have engagement and talks and inspections and the UN and the World's attention. And all that is good. BUt right now the "Trigger" is in the hand of diplomats, bureaucrats and lawyers. What are they going to do write a report that we found X in Iraq which violates, perpetrates, validates that IRAQ had or may have or has right now something defined as WMD. What's CNN or George Bush going to do? Create a graphic or simulation or BLOW-Up of the key points of the report? Are we to support pre-emptive invasion and bombing of people because Hans BLix wrote a scathing report? This just doesn't make sense. We are never invading Iraq. Right now they are back pedaling NKorea. Rascal @imagine.com