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To: Elroy who wrote (207468)	10/19/2004 10:34:24 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574798

Any policy that can't be explained and justified to our friends has serious flaws. What do you think about this statement? There has to be something to it, in my opinion. What's yours? My guess is your opinion is "we have no real friends!", which may explain something about your personal situation. I think it is both naive and absurd, borne of ignorance. Just as the Food For Oil scandal is showing, our interests do not always coincide with those of our "friends". If we require our foreign policy to pass the approval of our "friends", we put ourselves in danger. Having "friends" is fine, but you have to know where to draw the line. I think there is no better evidence of this than the Food for Oil scandal, which has our "friends" taking money from our enemy to keep us off their backs. Hell. I think the statement you quoted is nothing short of idiocy.