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To: tejek who wrote (161272)	2/17/2003 12:31:53 AM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574005

>I think Europe is most concerned with al Qaeda and tracking them down. I think they see the difficulty of trying to eliminate the world of rogue states and instead, want to focus on the groups that are most dangerous to them. Oh, bully. What makes you think that the European states are more concerned with Al-Qaida than we are? We just have more resources to spread around. >Rogue states tend to be most dangerous to the states around them, not distant states like the US. If you hadn't noticed, North Korea's got a Taepo Dong III that might be able to hit California, and likely two nuclear weapons. >The danger in what you are proposing and I think this is where Europe is coming from, is that who are you or who are we to decide who stays and who goes. At the beginning of these kind of enterprises, its standard procedure to go after the evil ones but as the process becomes corrupted as all processes eventually do, the standards that determine whom to go after become blurred. Kickbacks may become one of the standards; what can we expect to gain as a nation is another. So let's keep it from becoming corrupted... as Tom Friedman likes to point out, these days, thanks to the Internet, the American (and world) public has more of an idea of what's going on. I don't think our government could get away with another Chile debacle or another Vietnam. It's worth a shot. It sounds better to me than allowing generation upon generation upon generation of people to not have the same opportunities we have. >Frankly, I think we need to get out of the policing business before its too late and leave it to the UN. Think about the makeup of the UN. Out of the hundred and eighty or so countries in the UN, 21 are Arab (plus Palestine gets somewhat of a say) and a total of 58 or thereabouts is Muslim. Think about what the world would be like if the U.S. tried to decrease its global involvement. -Z