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To: D. Long who wrote (64563)	1/6/2003 10:16:17 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Remember the position of this Administration coming into office, and reconsider your statement, John. 911 exposed the extent of dangers which had been long brewing, and long ignored. In the face of those threats, with no time to assuage those threats by addressing their root causes, the only course is to do our best to decapitate the beast and achieve short term victory. With short term victory and the grave threats pushed back to arm's length, we have time to assess and resolve the issues at the root. You don't ignore the thief putting a gun to your head in order to deliver a sermon about the root causes of thievery to the choir. I know you don't mean to agree with me, Derek, since you generally don't, but this paragraph does. I agree that 9-11 means Al Qaeda has to be taken on and a smart foreign policy makes their defeat its very center piece. However, I do not think Iraq is a part of that work; it fits into some other agenda. I think it fits into the managing the global economy and the price of oil part of the work. And it's not at all clear that the best way to go about that is to invade Iraq. Nor do I think making over the ME in the image the US desires is part of that work. That's a part of the hubris I'm talking about. As for your use of the term "simpering," best leave negative ad hominem characterizations of others posts off this thread.