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To: Rascal who wrote (5748)	8/23/2003 10:18:34 AM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793559

Hi Rascal. became a rant but i think you will like it Good article but you must read the whole piece, and not just bold items you agree with. Today is day one and regardless of how poorly the peace has been managed so far(i for one am disappointed), the bottom line is Queen Vickies quote; "We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist." Victoria said that in 1899, during "Black Week" in the Boer War, when things were going badly. If the two of us whose opinions have differed so much in the past can agree on the above and that recriminations are best left for the historians, not the politicos who are constantly play catchup anyway, we will be making great progress. For me, i may have to consider an alternate political choice in 2004 and if things go very well from this point, you might have to consider bush in a race against Dr. Dean. Or perhaps we can both vote for a lieberman or that CNN general with the plastic hair whose name i can never remember but i want to call him maxell taylor or ramsey clark. <g> regards, Your new buddy, mike PS Last paragraph from Will article and a comment "Regarding the reconstruction of Iraq.... the United States must resolve, as Victoria and Thatcher did, that the possibilities of defeat are unthinkable. They must be, not because a happy Iraq, or a welcome cascade of political dominos, is or ever was likely in the near term, but because U.S. national security, meaning the war on terrorism and rogue regimes, must move on. Needed repeating. Ideologues on both left and right be damned. I let myself get to far removed from my training in this field. When the lefties and righties both hate you, you are likely on the right FP track. US national interest takes precedence over everything. Thats the first test before we start making overriding moral arguments for or against..