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To: Scripts who wrote (22317)	1/29/2005 3:49:29 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 80994

Ed > The Vietnam disaster showed the limits of the US military then and now IMO, the US has forgotten the lessons of both Vietnam and Iraq (also Korea) and is bent on pursuing the PNAC agenda, come Hell or high water. story.news.yahoo.com >>Although publicly the United States is saying it wants to stop Iran acquiring equipment for a military nuclear program, it is interpreting this very widely to cover any "dual use" goods which could be used for either civilian or military purposes. In November, U.S. ambassador Jackie Sanders told the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog, that selling even small items with potential military use would be punished. "We want any proliferators, from multinational conglomerates to small exporters of dual-use machine tools, to understand that the U.S. will impose economic burdens on them, and brand them as proliferators," Sanders said.<< > I don't know enough about the fall of the Roman Empire to make a definitive statement but it seems to my superficial knowledge that the differences are not great. I would think this is the first time in history that a great nation has fallen because of its perverse relationship with the political party of a tiny country. I refer, of course, to the relationship between the US and the Likud party of Israel and the series of wars known as the War against Terrorism that the US is undertaking because of that.