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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (22628)	3/18/2003 11:52:32 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Washington's first collateral damage: its allies By JEFFREY SIMPSON The Globe and Mail Tuesday, March 18, 2003 globeandmail.com <<...What a contrast to the Persian Gulf War. In that war, the U.S. enjoyed almost complete international support, except for the Soviets/Russians, Jordanians, Palestinians and a few hard-line Arab states. Front-line Arab states joined that military coalition. So did all the Western Europeans and Canada. Countries such as Japan picked up chunks of the bill. The biggest political challenge faced by the administration of Bush the elder was domestic public opinion. In this war, Americans -- whatever their hesitations and doubts -- are still so traumatized by 9/11 and fearful of future terrorist attacks that they support the President. They accept what no other country's public does -- that Saddam Hussein is linked to terrorists who threaten the United States, and that only a military strike can eliminate this potentially mortal threat. The military campaign will cause casualties aplenty, of course, but even before the fighting begins, the field of U.S. foreign policy is already littered with them...>>