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To: LindyBill who wrote (100647)	2/15/2005 10:27:36 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793772

Coming to a (Washington State) Costco Near You By PunditGuy Beer and wine samples. Our clever Washington State Legislature, who can't seem to pass a decent DUI law, now wants to enact legislation allowing grocery stores and like establishments to pass out booze samples. Yes, now you'll be able to go to Costco, or Safeway, KMart or Walmart and partake of a few samples of the newest barley and hops, then get in your car and drive away. Brilliant.

To: LindyBill who wrote (100647)	2/16/2005 3:43:55 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793772

Hillary Clinton suggested ways to strengthen the U.N., while also blasting its absurdities. Clinton affirmed that the U.S. preferred to work within the U.N., but she toughened her speech with ad-libs, warning, "Sometimes we have to act with few or no allies." If only Hillary's husband understood this need to act, I believe we could have averted thousands...perhaps tens of thousands of battlefield deaths.

To: LindyBill who wrote (100647)	2/16/2005 10:51:27 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793772

The reason European politics have run so far off the rails is precisely due to their lack of real-world responsibility One of the topics Barnett hits in his talks is that we need to get the other Core countries, not just "England and her former colonies" involved in peace-keeping in places like Iraq. He mentioned, as he has in his other talks, that when he was in China he told some Chinese honcho that China should send 50,000 peacekeepers to Iraq, and the honcho said, "yes, we should, after all, that's where we get most of our oil, but this isn't a perfect world." Barnett suggests that the reason we don't get more cooperation is that Bush alienates the ROW (Rest Of the World) with his unilateralism and cowboy rhetoric, which is, of course, exactly the explanation that the ROW gives. I see it differently. I think it's free-rider-itis. Economists and sociobiologists will both tell you that humans and other animal species will expend the least amount of resources necessary in order to achieve their goals. I think Barnett would disagree vehemently with the idea that a little bit of isolationism would get the ROW involved in peacekeeping. He agrees it's a problem but not with the solution. I am not sure he has a solution, but he does think it's one of our biggest problems in growing the Core and shrinking the Gap. He says the solution will come from the G-20, and that the Pentagon needs to enable it.