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To: Yogizuna who wrote (12777)	12/11/2003 9:17:06 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17683

"Fair" is very much a subjective term. Courtrooms proved this every day in thousands of cases where the contestants cannot agree as to what "fair" is. "Fair" to the Israelis is a patch of land of their own to live in peace on. "Fair" to Arabs is a ME without Israelis or Western influence. Was it "fair" to Hitler when Britain and France declared war on him when he invaded Poland? In his mind, probably not. It was not at all what he intended. He saw the British as natural allies. His real enemy, the one he was really after, was one he thought all of the West was after, Bolshevik Russia. Why should the Brits come after him for trying to eliminate a common danger? If a nation has an unemployment problem and sees an exportable item as a solution, but also sees that in order to get a foothold in the marketplace, it must provide subsidies to manufacturers for some time, is this "fair"? To whom? To existing manufacturers in other nations? Probably not. To the unemployed in the first nation? Most likely. "Fair" is a term children use on the playground. Adults have to deal with the real world and what is actually achievable and enforceable.