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To: zonder who wrote (67324)	1/13/2003 5:45:56 PM
From: Fred Levine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 70976

Zonder-- I just had a brief talk with a well-connected mideastern friend. His claim was that Europe is turning more anti-American and that surreptious support is coming from Lebanon, Syria, Iran, and other Arab states. In fact, he said that Dubai just offered Saddam amnesty if he stepped down, and the Dubai Minister was immediately escorted to the airport. Ijust heard from a English friend, a Marxist --who's really from the textbook of English eccentric intellectuals (brilliant, articulate, witty, but can't wipe his own arse)-- and he is very anti-involvement with Iraq, to no surprise. I'll kid him and tell him that his opposition is due to his support of saving sand fleas! fred

To: zonder who wrote (67324)	1/14/2003 3:08:51 AM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

The Barak deal was not just a lousy one, already impossible, but additionally double-impossible as elections were coming up in both USA and Israel, kind of really funny... Especially for 2-party USA, where the lack of continuity in furrin politics is often 100%, or at a minimum the risk of it. 100% proved this time, when Dangling Chad Bush started out by reversing everything he could possible reverse in just some short months. Ilmarinen Btw, everyone knows this all over the globe, but one should not talk about it, especially not in USA, although EU has made a somewhat respectless official undiplomatic transatlantic contact on this old dilemma long time ago. One solution would be to replace the pseudo-dangling-chad-democracy of USA with a regular dictatorship, representing the continuity for policies and promises. However, the EU-paper, postmarked some 6 years ago, focused more on US-length of pre-election campaigns, and always non-majority, weak post-election wag-the-dog presidents, and the genius of the USA catch-2-party, checks-and-balance system, to interleave elections to fix what went wrong last time. (that is, leaving close to nill time inbetween to work on actual issues) Minor crises timed correctly and just after the just elected minority-president has got his 100 days, and there is no time to the smartly (for domestic US balance) reformed chance to switch either house or senate to the opposite party, and another 2 years for the next major election. however, adding up the 1.5 year long pre-election campaigns, and that 0.5 year long post-election wag-the-dog stuff, kind of nill time inbetween. Plus that issue on first and second term, dead ducks,etc...