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To: RetiredNow who wrote (215604)	1/22/2005 4:08:42 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573835

Have you every played Risk or Diplomacy or Chess or any game that requires strategy and thinking 3, 4, 5 steps ahead? Sometimes you sacrifice a pawn here or there to lure the queen out. Sometimes you make an alliance with an enemy who has something to gain from you and in return you crush the larger enemy together. Then you come back and pressure the smaller enemy to accept democracy, human rights, pluralism, etc. Yes, we've been brilliant at this kind of play. In fact, Bush is just the president to participate in such a complicated strategy. BTW do you know who interceded on Turkey's behalf when the EU was trying to pressure Turkey to stop with its human rights violations and told the EU to chill? Why Mr. Bush of course. MM, the above strategy is your fantasy and has little to do with American foreign policy as it currently stands. Sorry. ted

To: RetiredNow who wrote (215604)	1/22/2005 10:17:28 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573835

Alighieri, you are completely devoid of strategic thinking. Why does the U.S. ally itself with Pakistan you ask? Your comprehension is really bad. I didn't ask any such question. I know the reason we are aligned with these folks. I merely pointed out the hypocrisy of a man who stands on the pulpit to condemn tyranny as he aligns himself with tyrants. Or the stupidity of encouraging, as his father did, rebellion against it, ignoring that those would rebel against his friends in Saudi Arabia and other such countries are the enemies we are fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. That speech was meant to justify the failure of decision making that Iraq is. Al