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To: KLP who wrote (9140)	1/17/2006 12:53:21 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541673

Talking about something is not ignoring it. Trying for a diplomatic solution is not ignoring it. Bombing a country because they want their own nuclear option is a highly aggressive, and pretty hypocritical action, when the country doing the bombing is a country that already has nukes. Not talking about that is ignoring a pretty big reality in the ME, and the folks in the ME are probably aware of it. I can see the entire Arab/Persian world getting pretty upset about this if it is handled stupidly- something for the bull in the china shop folks to bear in mind. If something stupid happens because we are not "ignoring" it- and if we become too aggressive in the ME, we may all wish we HAD ignored things (of course I'm not advocating ignoring things, and I don't know anyone else advocating that either. I think you've confused diplomacy, with "ignoring" things.) I personally believe most things can be resolved diplomatically, and if they can't be, it's always better to wait for a legitimate provocation before using force. What untruths about Iraq did you have in mind? The untruths that took us to war? The WMD that didn't exist, for example? The phoney rhetoric about how this isn't about oil? Yeah, I agree- we'd have been much better off if we had ignored the bad intelligence data, and just left Iraq alone. At least we agree on that.