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To: epicure who wrote (5202)	12/21/2003 1:29:18 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

During the Viet Nam War, my uncle was based in Thailand for years while he was in the Air Force. When you have large international bases, you are much more able to deploy large, sustained attacks on adjacent countries -- like we did in Laos and Cambodia -- clearly that is on the horizon. Should we expect to be expanding the war into former Soviet block countries to secure Caspian oil? Shall we engage in preemptive strikes against Pakistan to avoid the spread of nuclear weapons? Shall we rescue Georgia from Putin's election interference to promote world democracy? The fact is we've blown it in terms of just about every international action of unilateralism we've tried. We ignored Russia's economic problems in their post-glasnost recovery while allowing the Al Capones of the KGB to rise to power instead. The possibilities are virtually unlimited... I wonder if there is really any policy maker that thinks things will be better after such a move of military escalation or if they are just content to live out an apocalyptic vision prophesied in a volume of the Apocrypha? I hate to sound like a broken record, but some root-cause analysis is in order. We must ask what is the fundamental reason for our international problems right now. Hint: the answer is not radical Islamic politics or even corruption of the former KGB agents who run Russia, though I have to admit that we seem to do every thing we can to scratch that itch.