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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (81512)	3/12/2003 12:10:03 PM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 281500

....but the distinction the ambassador elided over, was whether the Germans should have this right to decide on their own course, or should have the right to make the decision for everybody else as well. Nobody is asking Germany to supply troops. You are 100% correct in pointing out this bit of German hypocrisy. If a nation is going to justify its opposition bbased on a Swiss-like neutrality, it should be neutral like the Swiss. The German position, to me, is the more complex one and least understandable. There is of course the pacifism. But recall, too, the Ambassador's statement that Schroeder had come dangerously close to falling when he got approval to send troops into Afghanistan. And also recall the fact that the Germans did send troops into Bosnia or somewhere else in the Balkans. Are they convenient pacifists?