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To: skinowski who wrote (67709)	2/8/2003 10:53:53 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Respond to of 70976

You are basically saying what I am saying but in a politically correct way. The way I am looking at it, either you think drug dealing and killing civilians is good or you don't. In the case of State Department, they say that it is good if the civilians you kill and the drug money you get are used to overthrow regimes that we do not like. That will make you a freedom fighter. If you just do it for personal gain, that makes you a plain criminal. And if you do it against our interests, that is terrorism. This shows a lack of principle. As you have pointed out the world changes. The people that CIA deals with do not (for the most parts). If I put myself in the middle of arms and drug trade, then I have no right to shout foul when it turns around and bites me. Total lack of accountablity and moral fiber in foreign policy is the cause of all these backfires. We do not excuse it our personal lives, why is it so openly accepted in the government? ST

To: skinowski who wrote (67709)	2/8/2003 11:20:30 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

I forgot to say two more thing...the first is that although there exists a very small faction whose true goal is what you'd call Islamist-imperialism, by and large it is local oppression and corruption, and lack of fair play by the West (perceived or otherwise) that pushes Muslims to flunk to their ranks. Remove the root causes and you remove the threat. Secondly, in years to come you will see a greater and greater divide between US and Europe. As EU is better established and as Soviet Union becomes a forgotten threat, competition for the Middle East and other strategic resources will force the State Department to call Europe the greatest threat to the world stability in some decade in the future. That is unless we can make the "Islamic-Imperialists" take the place of former Soviet Union so as to maintain the balance of power. just a thought, Sun (I think I will start a Tom Clancy kinda book) Tzu