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To: Rollcast... who wrote (77876)	2/26/2003 7:35:01 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

..."Prevention of military action is only possible if the democratic countries of this world work together, and are not split. The best success of Saddam Hussein will be to split the democratic world, and then to laugh about all of us."... Thanks to the "UN and process" - this split is guaranteed for the indefinite future... and so is that "larger than national institution" which "engages more seriously". Well, we agree that we might well be on the verge of a serious split but we disagree as to the source of the split. I consider the Bush administration's stance that they plan to invade Iraq and if the UN doesn't follow that makes it irrelevant, I consider that stance the source of the split. It's unilateral; in the extreme. The proliferation of nuclear weapons is an extraordinarily serious issue. And the actions of the Bush administration (and the Clinton administration as well) have only made that more dangerous. Both administrations have said they are opposed to nuclear proliferation but once countries gain them have no policy for dealing with that. The most recent instance of that, the North Korean and Iraqi contrast, just draws that lesson ever more sharply. One can expect the Iranians to move even more desparately to gain nuclear weapons as a consequence.