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To: Ilaine who wrote (60390)	2/16/2005 7:07:43 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Hello CB, Yes, the Barnett blog URL was permanently etched on my Yahoo Favorites (I hope Yahoo sticks around, else I lose a lot of good links) and is browsed with some regularity. I happen to think the man is mostly correct, although he may not be taking into account folks stirring up the street mob, and then ... well, you know. On the staffers and their bosses, they respond to external interests and mob pressure, and are influenced this way and pushed that way, as is in the nature of electoral democracy, as can be clearly seen in the trade spats between USA and China on the one hand, where more and more American politicians think: (a) China with a balanced world trade should revalue its currency to suit USA because USA has a Sino-US trade deficit in socks and bras; (b) China should effectively burn its hard-earned USD hoard so as to escape charges of currency manipulation; whereas (c) Japan with a world trade surplus should continue to sell Lexus SUVs to the USA, and (d) Japan can continue to use China-based factories to lower the cost of Lexus SUVs, and to print up paper Yen to buy USD on open market. I have some visibility on the issues between China and America, and feel the issues are twisted from reality substantially, but it is what the connected portion of street mob appears to want, although no one in the media appears to want to ask a simple question of J6P, "do you want your sock price to rise?", and the second simple question, "should China revalue its Yuan by 100%, will you go into a factory to make socks". On Putin, I think he is driven to what he is apparently doing by US actions, reactively. I suspect if he does not react in the way he appears to, he would be thrown out by his street mob just as Yeltsin was. On China, it is compelled to do what it appears to be doing by US actions, also reactively. Chugs, Jay

To: Ilaine who wrote (60390)	2/17/2005 7:46:28 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 74559

CB, Re: If the will can be found to join forces within the Core, a super-power super-Core super-NATO - is this imaginable? It is more likely that Europeans will follow France's lead and distance themselves from a U.S. dominated NATO, creating a new continental alliance that will exclude the U.S. This only makes sense, since the U.S. is currently the greatest threat to freedom and liberty on the planet.

To: Ilaine who wrote (60390)	2/17/2005 10:30:39 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

If the will can be found to join forces within the Core, a super-power super-Core super-NATO - is this imaginable? At this point in time, we (the United States) could make a lot of things work. Going it alone is not one of them. If we dictate a super Core, a super NATO - who is going to stop us. Europe would be harder for us to manage than Russia, China, or India. In other words we could get these countries to suck up to us much more easily. EU is more likely to follow a Swiss model. They will go it alone and make it work. A super Core would be much easier to manage than a UN or Maurices NUN. Would there be a lot of opposition? Sure. Could it work? Absolutely.