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To: NickSE who wrote (108741)	7/29/2003 3:46:30 PM
From: Sig	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

A right-on expression of the Democrats problems. If they could get a saleable platform together, and select one or two candidates early on. they may have chance It wont happen. tho, shows a terrible lack of planning (hahaha) since something may happen to upset any plan Of course GWB should have been able to plan the entire war and the re-building of Iraq with schedules and costs for the next two years. The candidates dont know how much they have to spend, nor what they will spend it on.at what time Dont know who the opposition is or what the opposition will fight with. But they can certainly tell GWB how to run a war-in detail... Sig Looks as though Den Beste is visited about 11,000 times per day and over 4 mm total.

To: NickSE who wrote (108741)	7/29/2003 6:12:05 PM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The Sleepy Superpower Awakes The U.S. is on the move again around the globe, and it's about time by CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER time.com The Great Wall of China, roughly defining the northern contours of the Chinese empire, has stood in the same place for 2,200 years. The Great Wall of America — the barrier of bases set up around the world to define the contours of the free world and hold back the Soviet empire — is about to disappear after just 50 years. We are living a revolution, and hardly anyone has noticed. In just the three months since the end of the Iraq war, the Pentagon has announced the essential evacuation of the U.S. military from its air bases in Saudi Arabia, from the Demilitarized Zone in Korea and from the vast Incirlik air base in Turkey — in addition to a radical drawdown of U.S. military personnel in Germany, the mainstay of the Great American Wall since 1945. For a country that is seen by so much of the world as a rogue nation, recklessly throwing its weight around, this is a lot of withdrawing. The fact is that since 9/11, when America awoke from its post — cold war end-of-history illusions, the U.S. has not, as most believe, been expanding. It has been moving — lightening its footprint, rationalizing its deployments, rearranging its forces, waking from a decade of slumber during which it sat on its Great Wall, oblivious to its immobility and utter obsolescence. cont'd.....