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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (123004)	1/11/2004 1:11:33 AM
From: tekboy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Rumsfeld? when? if you mean the memo, perhaps--but that was supposedly private, not public... as for your first point, I agree--and in fact, this whole case is a good example of how even the "professionals" can be wrong (altho the "ideologues" were even wronger<g>). 9/11 showed the danger of not "connecting the dots," of being overly cautious in one's analysis of new threats, too passive and reactive, etc. One could argue that Iraq has shown precisely the opposite. End result: you're damned if you do and damned if you don't, and the poor pathetic decisionmakers don't have any easy rule of thumb to follow... tb@lifeistough.com PS I haven't seen anything by Pollack on Baer specifically...but I know whose side he would have been on in the debate over the failed 96 coup attempt, and it wouldn't have been Baer's...