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To: epicure who wrote (4876)	12/8/2003 7:54:14 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20773

That goes back to my argument that we really need to know what we are doing before undertaking major action, as close to 100% as anyone can make it. I would love to see someone clean out the Mugabe thugs in Zimbabwe and get the country back on track. Starving your people by the millions must equal or outrank gassing a few thousand (I know that's grisly but we have to face what really goes on around the world). That said, I am not so sure I want to see US troops going into every corner of the world where people misbehave. The consequences of overstretching our abilities are already obvious, not to mention the mental descent into an America that acts as a paranoid, vengeful imperialist worldwide. It makes more sense to use US force only when there are clear strategic threats like Bin Laden, or very limited actions to act against thugs, without bankrupting ourselves in the process. A billion dollars a year to enforce a containment-inspection force in Iraq would have served our strategic aims and left us much better off.