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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (67713)	2/10/2003 12:26:39 PM
From: chomolungma	Respond to of 70976

For the first time in world history there exists a nation, US of A, that can bring about real world stability and peace. We can bring about a new dawn of humanity! We cannot do this by being a global police or a global babysitter. Rather we must act as a moral person would (I don't expect us to become angels either; choose someone you know whose ethics you admire, that is good enough). We should identify strategic positions that we absolutely positively need (rather than want). After we secure those, we should establish a non-interference pact with the world whereby we give up our support for all these corrupt "client" regimes around the world and in return the rest of the world agrees not to meddle in the internal affairs of others either. We'll bolster such a plan by creating a trading organization that will split this "peace dividend" around the world. The world will go along with this because initially we are "giving up" more than they are. But in the end we will all come out as winners. A wonderful paragraph that bears repeating. did you know there is evidence that US supported Ayatolah and the Islamic revolution in Iran? Not only it backfired and posed Iran against US, to the Iranian opposition, US is the root cause of their misery. Talk about getting hit on both sides! No, I wasn't aware of that. I do know that right or wrongly, the U.S. is blamed for many of the problems in Iran. Fortunately, Iran seems to be coming to their senses and, as you know, could easily become the bright spot of the area in the coming decade. It is a great example how your "non-interference" plan can work. Thanks for your post. -Cho