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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (123012)	1/11/2004 1:41:38 AM
From: tekboy	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

why is he so down on it? probably because, like many in the biz, he sees Iraq as only one part--albeit an extremely important part--of America's broader foreign policy, which basically involves running the international system for a long time to come. From that perspective--putting aside the whole question of extremely high costs--the upsides of ending Saddam's threatening tyranny and scaring other bad guys might well be dwarfed by the downsides of scaring everybody else. The Iraq war, in conjunction with a lot of other things the administration has done, has convinced most of the rest of the world that America's unprecedented and unmatchable power can and will be relatively capriciously deployed in situations where almost nobody else thinks it should be. That plays right into the hands of those who want to paint the US as the real threat (as opposed to the bad guys out there), and has complicated the task of future world leadership. tb@Istillhaven'tfiguredoutmyownretrospectivecostbenefitcalculations.btw