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To: TigerPaw who wrote (7423)	3/2/2004 12:23:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

That word If figures prominantly in your rationales. That's the nature of hypotheticals. They didn't happen, or haven't happened respectively. But you are also depending on an If for your objection to Bush's action. That is, If he hadn't acted as he did, the alternative would have been better. We don't know that. Can't know that. So you and I are both depending on Ifs to discuss this. We dont' know whether this was the best thing for Aristide and Haiti. But the nature of government is that you have to make decisions on the basis of imperfect knowledge. That's the nature of government. Sometimes doing nothing is the best course; sometimes doing something, even if not the perfect something, is better than doing nothing. And when armed gangs are roaming the country and about to attack the capital, there isn't time for lengthy debates, discussions, discursions. Those are just going to lead to people dying. So you act in what on the information you have seems the best way. And you accept that armchair commentators sitting safely back at their computers with no armed mobs in the street threatening their lives, their wives and children, will lob e-grenades at you. It's the nature of leadership.