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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (73898)	2/15/2003 6:33:13 AM
From: Elsewhere	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

What France and Germany are saying, is that they aren't sure they want to be part of this alliance, where everything is changed except the name. I am a couple of hundred posts behind so maybe some later poster has addressed this. The question was never whether to protect Turkey or not, rather whether to accept the US view that a war is imminent and preparations have to start immediately. The German government thought it imprudent to accept this interpretation of the Bush administration. Of course diplomacy isn't only about what is done but what the perception of others is. The interest of the Bush administration is to chastise any signs of disobedience. With Bush having the "air superiority" in US media the wide-spread perception now is that Germany refuses to defend Turkey. But the truth is that Germany will ship 46 Patriot missiles to Turkey, and everything else is a heated semiotic debate. cbc.ca