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To: TrueScouse who wrote (19326)	11/10/2004 9:31:07 AM
From: Lhn5	Respond to of 312455

<Economic power being shifted towards Europe? How's that???> You took my post out of context. I said that: "The balance of power in the world is shifting rapidly, not only as a result of US foreign policy but also as a result of a major shift in economic power away from the US and towards Asia and Europe.">>>>> Sorry about the context, but I don't disagree about a relative shift to Asia. << This has been the experience of Europe and the rest of the world for many decades. But the fact that the US has recently been hit hard by this is not justification for waging war on specific countries and killing tens of thousands of people. Suppose the British reaction to the horrible IRA bombings in the UK (which killed hundreds of people) was to bomb Dublin and kill tens of thousands? How would the world have viewed such a reaction to terrorism? Terrorist acts have been common throughout the last 30 or 40 years -- the Red Brigades in Italy, the FLQ in Quebec, the Bader-Meinhoff (sp?) in Germany, ETA in Spain, the IRA in the UK, etc., but the response has not been invasion or mass assaults on the civilians of these countries or territories. Do you think that countries other than the US have no experience with "terrorism"? Sorry, but dream on...>> I think the difference between those entities and now is that we are dealing with state sponsored terrorism imported from one country to another. Certainly Afghanistan was the clearest example of this. Regarding WMD...it is one thing to say that the decisions made in Iraq regarding evidence of WMD was based on faulty or mistaken evidence...and that might be the case, but I am far from certain that the decisions were not made in good faith at the time they were made.