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To: Lane3 who wrote (56160)	7/26/2004 12:30:32 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794042

I'm sorry. Since when are outsiders supposed to package coherent policies for administrations? Maybe with a bow? Hello, you were the one saying that the Bush administration made its mistakes becaust it didn't listen at the right time to the right people. If you want an administration to listen to you, you have to offer something. I did not hear anything constructive coming out of the UN, Europe, or any of the diplomatic camps opposed to Bush, and I for one was listening. "Do nothing, everything's okay" was widely preached by those ignorant of the Middle East; I failed to hear one diplomat defend containment as a policy which was either working or could be made to work. Containment was fast becoming a farce and everybody knew it. But since the US was paying the costs, it was okay with everybody else, and even the realists at State were stuck with it, since stability was their highest good. The most likely outcome of containment was its failure (France and Russia were working on it in the UNSC) with all the concommitant gain for Saddam & loss of face and influence for the US. I heard serious players warn of the dangers of war. The only alternative policy I heard proposed was eternal jaw-jaw at the UN and wait for Saddam to die.