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To: stockman_scott who wrote (130227)	4/27/2004 11:12:43 PM
From: Sig	Respond to of 281500

<<<By James O. Goldsborough Columnist SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE <<<The trouble with a morality-based foreign policy, Kissinger liked to explain during the Cold War, is that it makes war inevitable. If each side believes God is with it and the devil with the other, agreement is impossible.>>> OK thats not bad, Muslims say Allah good, we bad, and therefore agreement is impossible. Which makes war inevitable unless we chose to let terrorists walk all over us. And explains why words dont solve the Israeli/Pal problems. <<Policy based on national interest is a more sensible and historically more successful way to proceed. We should know that by now. Says Mearsheimer: Realists tend not to draw sharp distinctions between 'good' and 'bad' states, because all great powers act according to the same logic regardless of their culture, political system or who runs the government." >>>> Now wait just a minute here. Is he saying that France, Germany, the UK, and the US all acted according to the same logic in deciding the fate of Saddam? It was the culture, the political system, and the man who ran the government of France that caused them to act to try to leave Saddam in power, to enjoy selling him arms and participating in lucrative oil contracts. That was certainly a different kind of logic than that applied by the US or the Coalition of the Willing in ridding Iraq of Saddam. And Saddams logic, in leading a great nation, remains beyond comprehension. Sig