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To: epicure who wrote (113814)	9/3/2003 3:36:56 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Emotional issues don't really count for much in the way I look at foreign policy and security issues, so I'm probably misreading your posts if that is your perspective. Our emotional responses have to be tempered if we are to be coherent and somewhat rational in the formulation of a security policy. Like a surgeon who has to distance himself from the disease, policymakers have to be clinical in their thinking. The emotional tissues as are very interesting. I once posted a psychological profile of Arafat that was helpful in understanding and predicting his actions. I'm sure you can find one about Bush that is interesting reading, too. At the end of the day, I'm not interested as much in the why a policymaker acts as he does as I am in the policy itself.