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To: Michael Watkins who wrote (148888)	10/24/2004 9:13:55 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I'm unwilling to tolerate dictators that gas their people or use prohibited weapons in a war against another; but nor am I willing to tolerate our own leaders that aid and abet these same dictators or knowingly take serious immoral action themselves. Excuse me, you seem to be using a logarithmic scale - one order of magnitude for our leaders, for whom shaking hands with Saddam Hussein qualifies as "serious immoral action", and other for dictators, where massacres of hundreds of thousands seem quite tolerable to you on the whole, certainly not worthy of the same amount of censure as Rumsfeld's damn handshake. Which is more serious, shaking Saddam's hand and giving him just enough support so he didn't lose to Khomenei quickly, or building him a nuclear reactor? Or Saddam routine torturing and killing by the tens and hundreds of thousands? Time and time again past administrations have been shown to act with an alarming lack of morality yet you seem unconcerned about this, nor do you seem to accept that moral lapses in the past will likely happen in the future and may well be happening now. Our government decisions have always taken our national interests in mind, which is perfectly moral in my opinion, as well as sometime moral considerations. Sometime I think the decisons were immoral; but mostly not. Things need to be viewed in the context of the time, something that people whose interest is in scoring points of moral purity don't care about. They prefer to view actions out of context and weighed against some standard of perfection. How about finding a single standard of measurement, and getting a sense of perspective?