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To: FaultLine who wrote (117593)	10/24/2003 1:43:24 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I am happy to oblige. There are many considerations about undertaking a mission of this sort, but surely it is not a matter of indifference that the situation is more promising than if left to fester. A lot of it has to do with one's view of the United States and its historical role since becoming a transatlantic power, rather than an enclave hugging the Atlantic coastline. If you think that American power has mostly played a constructive role in the world, and that we have an obligation to help shape the world into a more humane place, then one will consider an intervention like this, in itself, to be largely a success, and merely worry over the follow through. If one thinks that the United States has mostly been an oppressor, and/or that it is wrong to intervene in most cases, one will find it hard to be convinced that we are on the right track now.........