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To: tekboy who wrote (124424)	2/6/2004 12:16:30 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Check out The Charlie Rose Show tonight... charlieroseshow.com DISCUSSION ABOUT AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE with ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, Former National Security Adviser and REUEL MARC GERECHT Former Middle Eastern Specialist, CIA American Enterprise Institute also ELIZABETH EDWARDS Wife of and Adviser to Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards

To: tekboy who wrote (124424)	2/6/2004 10:18:24 AM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 281500

um, did you really like that one? Very much so. Creative but rigorous legal thinking at its best. The other 'legal' article proposing a scheme for dealing with alien combatants' legal rights was, well, not up to FA's usual excellent standards, IMO. The Bushies would not have made nervous Nellies out of the rest of the world if they had used a doctrine along the lines proposed in the article instead of unilaterally declaring that the US will act preemptively to defend its own interests. A more global focus would have been significantly more palatable. The bad guys who would be affected, after all, are in large part those who threaten US national security. Adding a humanitarian dimension to the duty is A Good Thing, smooths the conflicts created by a foreign policy that has not been globally well-received. In other words, the adoption of the article's formulation of the doctrine is not only good in substance but good politics, too. For those who may be interested, please find below a link to the article on the duty to intervene. Good stuff: foreignaffairs.org