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To: carranza2 who wrote (150478)	11/2/2004 12:55:27 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Respond to of 281500

I wasn't addressing his piece with my comment on energy policy, I was addressing yours: the conduct of a foreign policy is ultimately the management of perceptions. I've no problem at all with an aggressive counter terrorism strategy provided its sane. Clearly I believe attacking Iraq was not a sane example of policy in action. Defensive / offensive security policy is not the be all / end all of "foreign policy*. There's more to it than that. Podhoretz seems to believe, like Bush and other Kool-Aid drinkers, that force fitting democracy into the area a) will work and b) will solve all problems there. He doesn't go into any critical analysis to support his (and other Kool-aid drinker's) claims. His piece is therefore lamentable because it is merely one long opinion piece.