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To: Noel de Leon who wrote (114657)	9/13/2003 6:35:17 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 281500

<One can ask why did US administrations "let" Pakistan and India, among others, develop nuclear WMDs?> In the Age of Lies, the moral standard a nation or person must obey, is inversely proportional to that nation's or person's power. For instance, If a doctor has sex with his patients, he loses his license. If a priest has sex with the young boys in his parish, (and the Church's Department of Coverups fails to keep it out of the newspapers), he isn't allowed to supervise children any more. But a President of the United States has impunity from all hypocrisy, all crimes. He can have sex with interns, lie under oath, get caught, and there are no consequences. He can even be a draft-dodger, and then later say "Bring it on", and strut around in uniform on the deck of an aircraft carrier. He is held to the lowest moral standard, because he has the most power. Likewise, India and Pakistan, they are too big for any rules to be applied. With them, we finesse and kick the can down the road. Iraq is weak and powerless enough to bully. But now that we are stuck to two Tar Babies, now Iran and N. Korea have a window of opportunity, to achieve membership in the Impunity club. Soon, only Haiti and Gambia will have to act like civilized nations.