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To: michael97123 who wrote (35163)	3/17/2004 6:19:09 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 793647

AQ won a skirmish only if you are willing to accept the notion that the Socialists won only because of the bombs. I simply can't accept that explanation. A lot of the blame falls on Aznar. How much, I don't know. We've got to abandon this crazy line of thinking that is being established which suggests that the French, the Germans, and now the Spanish are AQ "appeasers" because they didn't support us in Iraq. The Europeans will cooperate with us on the WOT and they will do so gladly because they now know what can happen if they don't. Cooperation on the WOT is in their best interests. If AQ can successfully link peace on the terror front with European non-cooperation on the WOT, we will be in a heap of trouble because European politicians will do what politicians do everywhere, that is respond by catering to this kind of thinking. We will have real and dangerous appeasement because we know that any let-up on the terror campaign is false--they want us dead or subjugated. In the meantime, we need to learn to agree to disagree with the Europeans and cooperate with them on the various fronts in which we have mutual interests.