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To: michael97123 who wrote (86498)	3/26/2003 10:55:02 AM
From: arun gera	Respond to of 281500

>My hope is that when this is over the US will take on the responsibility to help rebuild iraq/baghdad and not cut and run.> All very good. But I wonder if US would be as quick to declare war on nations far away if US was in danger of being bombed the same way as they are bombing the enemy (World War 1 & 2,Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, etc.). And that may be the reason why European and US viewpoints are different. The World War 2 affected the Europeans more intimately, for the US it was still an indirect participation (and Pearl Harbor is a continent away for most Americans); US soldiers and families were affected but there was no direct danger of attack on home and families. Wherever, there is a chance of successful retaliation on mainland US (Cuba, USSR, China, North Korea (??), the US shies away from a hot confrontation. Sensible in its own way. -Arun