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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (5059)	12/16/2003 3:04:54 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20773

It's not a question of optimism, it's a question of pragmatism based on experience working in the government foreign affairs machinery. You can't just assume all the assets you could ever need like PNAC assumed that Iraq would go perfectly and set the stage for the followup you expect. Add in how obstructive our former allies around the world could really be if they wanted to - if the US launches another preemptive strike anywhere without a reasonable international consensus, the squabbles so far will look like an overheated tea party. The US doesn't have the clout to get away with it, period. Not militarily, fiscally, economically or diplomatically. Trees don't grow to the sky just because a think tank on the right or the left says they will. The zealots start climbing until those who lack the sense to stop fall off. Happens over and over on both sides of the aisle.