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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (165542)	7/8/2005 12:15:39 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 281500

"Just remember, when you destroy something, you'd better have a good replacement for the vacuum you create, or the results can be even worse than what you took out." Have the Iraqi's finished composing the Constitution of Iraq yet. I'm jealous. We need to have a constitutional convention here in the USA so we can make sure ours is the best it can be. Things have changed. Look at the telecom industry. Everyone knows that copper wire will not meet the needs of a modern society as we go forward, so we are replacing it with fiber optics and satelyte technology. We can add some enhancements to the copper wire networks temporarily but eventually we need to be ready to move off of that obsolete platform.

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (165542)	7/8/2005 12:29:24 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Bush has actually woken up to this fact. Which is why he says for the past 60 yeas US has had the wrong policy in support thugs. I have watched his intellectual progress over the past 4 years and has not been bad at all...now if only he'd actually put that knowledge into action in Uzbekistan I'd have more faith in him. Or has he merely learned what words to say to the appropriate audience.... Shaking Off 'Failed Policy'? Such a stance would make a mockery of the centerpiece of Mr. Bush's remarks to his British audience at Whitehall Palace less than two weeks ago: "We must shake off decades of failed policy.... In the past, [we] have been willing to make a bargain, to tolerate oppression for the sake of stability. Longstanding ties often led us to overlook the faults of local elites. Yet this bargain did not bring stability or make us safe. It merely bought time, while problems festered and ideologies of violence took hold. "As recent history has shown, we cannot turn a blind eye to oppression just because the oppression is not in our own backyard. No longer should we think tyranny is benign because it is temporarily convenient. Tyranny is never benign to its victims, and our great democracies should oppose tyranny wherever it is found." Trouble Elsewhere As with Taiwan, President Bush is being pressed to render such brave words into hollow phrases with respect to the tyrannies of Iran, North Korea and Syria. If we "tolerate their oppression" ? and, for that matter, their pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and support for terror ? we will do nothing more than maintain the fiction of "stability" while dangers build. At the same time, some of Mr. Bush's subordinates are also actively encouraging an effort by a discredited, unaccountable Israeli ex-politician by the name of Yossi Beilin which will have the effect of subverting a friendly democracy and emboldening its despotic enemies. This is, as Charles Krauthammer observed in the Washington Post on Friday, "scandalous" and a "disgrace." centerforsecuritypolicy.org jttmab P.S. I thought Bush's words sounded more like something from PM Blair. Perhaps it was a suggestion?