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To: Neeka who wrote (41301)	4/28/2004 6:09:18 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793841

The harm I perceive is that her statement could embolden terrorists within the ME...... more than they already are.....to travel to Iraq and try to kill our soldiers. Indeed. If you were fussing at her for making that statement at all, I would understand your position, although I think she has every right to hold that opinion and to express it. But I don't see how her making that statement in an interview with a foreign paper emboldens terrorists any more than her making the statement to, say, the NYT. There she is, sitting in her office, reporters come by and ask questions, some from US newspapers, some from foreign newspapers. Is she supposed to tell them different things? Is she not supposed to talk to foreign reporters at all given that she has reservations about the conduct of the war? If she's at a press conference and reporters ask questions, is she supposed to shun the foreign reporters so that she doesn't say anything critical of the war to them but go ahead and say it to an American reporter sitting in the next row? I don't see how the nationality of the newspaper asking the questions can matter. What she says will be published by every newspaper in the world that is interested regardless of who asked the question. If your problem were that she expressed the POV that she did independent of where it was printed, that I could understand. I must admit that I admire Krauthammer's writing immensely, and I do take it for granted that he knows that of which he speaks. I respect Krauthammer, too. If he said that there's a rule, then there's a rule. That doesn't mean that the rule has any practical import, though.