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To: John Soileau who wrote (124394)	2/5/2004 2:20:22 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Glad you read it. His comments on the Armenians do seem rather callous; it was certain ethnic cleansing on an immense and brutal scale. The Greeks of Asia Minor too, to a less extent. I do agree with Lewis on a post-9/11 aggressive policy in the Middle East, but totally disagree that Iraq is in any way a rational locus for that aggression I'm glad that we can agree that isn't "just" about going after Al Qaeda. Often your comments read like you think that doing anything but a police pursuit of Al Qaeda is unjustified and a "diversion". I don't think Iraq was a diversion, rather a very large and festering piece of unfinished business, which we could, and I emphasize the word "could", do something about. What else do you think we should have done, to pursue a post 9/11 aggressive policy in the Middle East?