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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (136232)	6/11/2004 1:52:53 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

There have been times, recently, that the US was involved in wars in places that had nothing to do with US security interests, e.g., Kosovo. That type of thing is consistent with the world views of people like the Clintons and the Kerrys and others who see bigger and more US federal government intervention as the solution to every problem. One of Dubya's campaign promises was that the US should not be the policeman of the world. That happens to be something I agreed with. I have yet to see, post-war, any evidence that the war was, on the whole, a better idea than continued sanctions and no-fly zones. Some things are better, some worse. In life, there are always tradeoffs. I imagine that you will parade out a list of things that are better, but conveniently ignore the things that are worse because they don't fit your purposes. As do people on the other side of the argument. It doesn't matter, we can't put the genie back into the bottle, we can't unbreak the eggs, so it's a moot point, a dead horse that can, and will, be beaten forever by people with interests or nothing better to do. I said what I had to say. If I had known then what I know now, I would not have supported it.