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To: abuelita who wrote (80253)3/7/2003 6:43:02 PM
From: Jacob Snyder  Respond to of 281500
 
<another pleasant thought>

Virtually every nation gives lip service to the principle of respecting other nation's sovereignty.

But every soldier sent into every other nation, for any reason, is a violation of that principle. "Power comes out of the barrel of a gun."

There is an immense amount of rationalization, excuses, finessing, to try to get around this truth.