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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (139331)	7/8/2004 12:51:05 PM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 281500

If you think a proper goal of our foreign policy and a proper use of our military, with the probable loss of American lives which that entails, is to make the leaders of other nations "alter boys," or to assure that they act in ways which we see as "sane," then you're right. C'mon, you can do better than that bit of rhetoric. The altar boy phrase was a simple analogy you understood perfectly. Your point is, well, pointless. But you make a decent point about national interest--getting rid of Saddam was indubitably in our national interest, though you may not appreciate so now. Never said our motives were altruistic. They are, have been, and hopefully wil be in the future ruled by a rational calculation of our national interest, including the need to act independently should it become necessary. If tangential altruistic goals are achieved, so much the better. Altruism by itself sucks.