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To: Bilow who wrote (129988)	4/24/2004 10:46:13 PM
From: h0db	Respond to of 281500

Carl, your post reminded me of something Hans Morgenthau said: "Never allow a weak ally to make decisions for you. Strong nations that [violate this rule] lose their freedom of action by identifying their own national interests completely with those of the weak ally. Secure in the support of its powerful friend, the weak ally can choose the objectives and methods of its foreign policy to suit itself. The powerful nation then finds that it must support interests not its own and that it is unable to compromise on issues that are vital not to itself, but only to its ally."