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To: michael97123 who wrote (159378)	3/21/2005 2:01:15 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Mike, I wasn't referring to the NY Times story when I suggested that we have less and less unfiltered news coming out of Iraq. I was simply tossing that in to point out that our individual assessments of what is happening there are necessarily obscured by the lack of any real survey because of the severely restricted access. We may be looking at a three state solution as you suggest. The question is whether they end up there through rivers of blood or through some political compromise, and whether the other nations of the region get involved, and whether we are physically in the middle, and where it all ends in terms of our strategic interests in energy and reducing the root causes of terrorism and the opportunities for terrorists. These are things we should have considered and had realistic plans for success for, or avoided, before we started the fire. These are critical questions in this complex world and our utmost diplomacy and our most intelligent and realistic thinking is required. I am not encouraged; foolish leaders who rely on magical thinking don't change their stripes. Ed