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To: Ish who wrote (106325)	7/18/2003 6:45:28 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<Appeasement is more like extortion in that case.> Right. That's the attitude in Washington today. In normal times, when rational people are running things, here's how problems are solved: All the players sit around a table, listen respectfully to each other, and hash out a compromise. Everyone gets some of what they want, nobody gets everything they want. Give and take. Compromise, accomodation, live and let live. Rules are respected, treaties are honored. But the attitude now is: We want it all. Giving anything to any opponent is "extortion". Negotiation is appeasement. We get 100% of what we want, and everyone else gets 0%. Being rude, antagonizing everyone, even natural allies, this is evidence of moral courage. No treaty, no international organization, nothing at all, will be allowed to restrict our unlimited Global Reach. Notice, also, that we didn't even give the N. Koreans what we promised in the 1994 Agreement. We didn't build the two reactors, we didn't normalize diplomatic relations, we didn't establish normal economic relations, we didn't end the embargo. Of the many things explicitly promised, we only kept our word on one, the oil shipments.