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To: Dayuhan who wrote (95155)	4/20/2003 10:54:44 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 281500

<the Chinese were "forced" to deal with us> Here is the NeoCon thought process: Either foreigners do, or don't do, what we want, after we threaten them. If they do, that proves that force (or the threat of it) worked. If they don't do, that shows we were too wimpy, didn't use enough force. It's a very simple way to figure out how to respond to all problems. The debate is then only about whether threats alone will work, and how much force or threat is sufficient, and what the rankings are on the target list. I see this method, being applied to "understand" every foreign policy problem, from Korea to Iraq to Palestine to Syria.