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To: Neocon who wrote (81804)	3/13/2003 2:01:48 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<it does not take a pro- active United States to make WMDs attractive> Certainly, the U.S. is not the only power with a bad habit of bullying little nations, and giving them an incentive to acquire "equalizers". But we do it a lot more than anyone else. The other bullies would be inhibited, in ignoring their neighbors sovereignty (that's what preemption and RegimeChange mean), if we didn't set such a bad example. <any revisionist power is likely to be batted down sooner or later, and has no hope of achieving its goals without WMDs to use as leverage> Exactly. Argentina and Brazil stopped their nuke programs, because nobody was threatening to "bat them down". They looked around, saw no threats, and decided they didn't need "equalizers." If we want non-proliferation to work, we have to create a world where everyone looks around and sees no threats. Our current policy is precisely the opposite. Our current policy is to continuously threaten to overrun nations, any nation anywhere, that don't agree to permanent U.S. hegemony. The realistic model for a world at peace, is the EU. The model the Bush Administration wants, is the Roman Empire.