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To: Sully- who wrote (377)	4/18/2003 11:00:23 AM
From: WhatsUpWithThat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20773

A good bit of your post was about the luxury enjoyed by the few, and the poverty suffered by the many. I was saying only that this condition pervades many countries, and pervaded many that at the time America called friends and allies. It isn't that this excuses the situation in Iraq, only that it points out it is hardly unique and is tolerated without a protest in allies. Again, my point is just not to overplay the card. Either put pressure on allies to clean up their act or qualify the outrage, which otherwise seems hypocritical. is no room for any agenda or excuse to allow terrorism with a regional/global reach to be tolerated. So the IRA will be a target, then, and the Shining Path, and other regional terrorist groups? Seriously. I would expect that America would target groups that threaten America; that to me would be more understandable. The hunger in America issue we'd disagree on in degree. I think there is much less free food readily available than you do, though absolutely programs do exist and there are many dedicated people working hard at the problem. I also can't abide someone making $20m a year and buying a $300K watch instead of funding food or medicine or some other needed charity work, at home or abroad. That disparity, wherever it exists, is too great. I am not, of course, advocating enforced equality of wealth and goods =-P As with many issues, it's the extremes that get me. Best regards WUWT ps Cuba is another example that irks me. While its people live in terrible poverty and the country in want, I discover the other day the Castro has a personal fortune of $180m USD. In a Communist country. Sheesh.