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To: Road Walker who wrote (269859)	1/24/2006 7:12:16 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571002

I like to view what we do as an American, but also I try to put myself in the shoes of the other countries in the world, to see how what we do looks to THEM. That's where what the pundits call "soft power" comes from, the ability to sieze the imagination and support of foreign citizens. As far as nuclear weapons, we and the Russians are sitting on arsenals that dwarf the arsenals of the entire rest of the world. As long as this is the case, we have NO moral authority from which to be dictating other nations nuclear programs or ambitions. We aren't even making a serious effort to address the massive nuclear stockpiles possessed by ourselves and the Russians, stockpiles we have reduced by 50% in PAST administrations. The Russians would probably LOVE to reduce their expensive-to-maintain nuclear arsenal. Progress CAN be made, and countries HAVE given up their nuclear weapon programs, as S. Africa did.

To: Road Walker who wrote (269859)	1/25/2006 12:59:09 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571002

In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, Tehran offered to help Washington overthrow the Taliban and establish a new political order in Afghanistan. But in his 2002 State of the Union address, President Bush announced that Iran was part of an "axis of evil," thereby scuttling any possibility of leveraging tactical cooperation over Afghanistan into a strategic opening. In the spring of 2003, shortly before I left government, the Iranian Foreign Ministry sent Washington a detailed proposal for comprehensive negotiations to resolve bilateral differences. The document acknowledged that Iran would have to address concerns about its weapons programs and support for anti-Israeli terrorist organizations. It was presented as having support from all major players in Iran's power structure, including the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. A conversation I had shortly after leaving the government with a senior conservative Iranian official strongly suggested that this was the case. Unfortunately, the administration's response was to complain that the Swiss diplomats who passed the document from Tehran to Washington were out of line. Finally, in October 2003, the Europeans got Iran to agree to suspend enrichment in order to pursue talks that might lead to an economic, nuclear and strategic deal. But the Bush administration refused to join the European initiative, ensuring that the talks failed. During the past 5 years, were you aware that Iran was offering any of the above cooperation to the US? I wasn't. Either the info was withheld, not well known, or its a lie. If its the first one, than this is just one more example of how ideologues screw things up........if its the second one, its one more example of how we don't have freedom of the press, and if its the third.......well the guy is a jerk for lying. ted