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To: LindyBill who wrote (16872)	11/20/2003 12:21:20 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 793673

It's difficult to be for the UN, and against the UN, at the same time. The rhetoric doesn't match the preemptive, dismissive actions. The French leaders are as virulently anti-American right now as the Soviet leaders ever were. This concept that these people are going to go along with us if we are nicer to them is nonsense. "Nice" isn't a word in diplomacy. Power is, and the most important power the US had was moral authority, not military. Without moral authority, our military power is worse than useless... it brands us as targets by millions, or hundreds of millions. Somehow there is a feeling that we can "kill all the terrorists and scare the rest". That is the crux of the dangerous presumption in Washington. There are two problems with that: 1) If that is a correct assumption, the costs HAVE NOT BEEN CALCULATED OR DISCLOSED. 2) The real danger is: if that is NOT correct, we are in for escalating terrorism and increasing bloodshed 10X or 100X Israel's, that will not end until the Bush administration has been removed from office.