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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (42811)	2/2/2003 1:10:21 PM
From: dennis michael patterson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 52237

Haim, are you still holding those Qs? I plan to get long this month if we go down far enough. But I have a sense this week could be up

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (42811)	2/2/2003 1:14:22 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 52237

what is your low target on the USD? I'm looking for high 80s or 90, what do you think of that? Imo the USD is way too high even now.

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (42811)	2/2/2003 7:38:56 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Respond to of 52237

So pardon me if I don't take seriously all the Euro-whining about the Bush policies toward Iraq — for one very simple reason: It strikes me as deeply unserious. It's not that there are no serious arguments to be made against war in Iraq. There are plenty. It's just that so much of what one hears coming from German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and French President Jacques Chirac are not serious arguments. They are station identification. They are not the arguments of people who have really gotten beyond the distorted Arab press and tapped into what young Arabs are saying about their aspirations for democracy and how much they blame Saddam Hussein and his ilk for the poor state of their region. Rather, they are the diplomatic equivalent of smoking cancerous cigarettes while rejecting harmless G.M.O.'s — an assertion of identity by trying to be whatever the Americans are not, regardless of the real interests or stakes. And where this comes from, alas, is weakness. Being weak after being powerful is a terrible thing. It can make you stupid. It can make you reject U.S. policies simply to differentiate yourself from the world's only superpower. Or, in the case of Mr. Chirac, it can even prompt you to invite Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe — a terrible tyrant — to visit Paris just to spite Tony Blair. Ah, those principled French. "Power corrupts, but so does weakness," said Josef Joffe, editor of Germany's Die Zeit newspaper. "And absolute weakness corrupts absolutely.We are now living through the most critical watershed of the postwar period, with enormous moral and strategic issues at stake, and the only answer many Europeans offer is to constrain and contain American power. So by default they end up on the side of Saddam, in an intellectually corrupt position." nytimes.com