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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (127693)	3/30/2004 1:32:03 AM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Respond to of 281500

Our wacos don't have millions of sympathizers or millions of dollars, or an ideology that tells them that killing millions of people is a swell idea. What worries me somewhat is what happens when the demagogues take root in Latin America or other places where there are people who in far worse condition than, say, the Palestinians. Look at Brazil, which Chomsky depicts as a democratic model we should follow. Their Black slave trade was far worse than anything in the US, and went on a lot longer. While the worst of it will befall people living in the countries themselves (as the long list of African countries that nobody seems to care about descending to the streets to protest over show), one never knows what kinds of bright ideas may go around. Just to be perfectly clear, the US is not directly at fault in the near totality of these situations, even if our policies, particularly when struggling with the threat of Communism, didn't help things in the past. But no Western country has done any better, certainly not the Oh So Moral European Union. I still am of the opinion that we're better off having flushed terrorism out in the open now, well before they have been able to get their hands on nuclear weapons. Far better to know what we are up against than to have out heads back up somewhere as we did during the 90's economic boom years.