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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (123127)	1/13/2004 2:43:37 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

It wasn't the french rolling their tanks across Costa Rica that brought all this forward .... they're not some homogenous lump of grey goo either, there are millions of them and they have a vigourous political debate in their country ..... anyway i don't see how the french matter so much, beyond being useful to the neocons as a focal point for demonisation .... a broad consensus among democracies wouldn't need every single member onside to lend legitimacy to an issue .... unanimity would be great, but it's rare in human affairs ... and right there is a reason why no one should hold a veto Out here we're not all that satisfied with our own politicians either, you know .... for example Chrétien, who fixed on the right policy in re Iraq invasion for the wrongest of reasons, he as much as said he would prefer to follow Chirac not Bush, his failure to cite valid principle in the judgment was uncanadian, he had the chance to promote rule of law and he mumbled stupidities Earlier i lost a long post to you, that was its basic gist .... it's a complex world extremely difficult to govern, sure, but either we learn how to do so in reasonably democratic fashion or we wipe ourselves out ... we choose a road to a functioning parliament of nations, or to death, take your pick