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To: lorne who wrote (4359)	2/19/2003 6:54:55 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 15987

Just as London and Paris in 1956 did not grasp that global politics had become bi-polar, Paris and Berlin today do not now grasp that it is uni-polar. Being an American, I'm uncomfortable with being the sole superpower in a uni-polar world. The problem with being "king of the hill" is that everyone is more focused on knocking you off, than in doing what is right to preserve some semblance of global order. And this is exactly where we find governments like France and Germany manipulating their public opinion in defense of the indefensible, Saddam Hussein. As I stated previously, the whole mid-east has been economically, socially, and political retarded because no one has been willing to shake up the status quo. And the US has put up with helping to maintain this situation if only because disorder is bad for business and because we were occupied with "containing" the USSR (and most recently, Saddam).. But now it's a new game.... indeed, 9/11 has changed everything.. We were attacked by groups spawned from the present political, economic and demographic trends in the Mid-East.. Groups who see the US as being the primary patrons of some of these regimes... But the US has little interest in seeing these regimes replaced by repressive and militant Theocracies.. So we are forced instead, to fight the urge and desire to say "p*ss on them all", and attempt to change and influence the region in a positive manner... And like I've shown with the chart of the Kuwaiti stock exchange, the region is anticipating this and preparing to unleash the economic potential that lies in the region... Hawk

To: lorne who wrote (4359)	2/20/2003 12:25:32 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 15987

Harsh words indeed from Mr. Clinton's old friend, re Iraq, France and Germany.... Morally, the French and German position - and that of our domestic peace demonstrators - will be undermined and undone by the reality of what Saddam Hussein is doing behind closed doors. If Saddam is found, posthumously, to have been wrongly accused and we find none of the horror stories about weapons of mass destruction were true, the critics will triumph. But if our troops find the labs, bio-bomb factories, chemical-weapon stockpiles and nuclear research programs that Secretary of State Colin Powell says are there, the voices of France, Germany and the U.S. left will be stilled for a long, long time to come.