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To: Neeka who wrote (162974)	4/6/2006 12:31:02 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793774

Thanks for the back to back Coulter and Noonan opinion for the day....Coulter reminds us to actually see what is happening, and Noonan reminds us to see what has happened...both views are pertinent, even if we don't always agree with them. She talks about Europeans and Americans in WWII. That was a Europe before 9-11 and before many countries in Europe were 25% or more Muslim. I do believe she is right about the people in Iraq and how they will view America. After World War II, half of Europe had been defeated by America, bombed by it. And yet America had the broad support and affection of Western Europe in the crucial quarter century after that war, in part because of efforts such as the Marshall Plan, but also because of exposure, both prewar and postwar, to American GIs. Europeans came to know who Americans were. American leaders and diplomats did plenty to help America's standing, but in the end the glory went, I think, to the GI Joes, and some Janes too, who won and occupied with American grace. We will find, down the road, that many in Iraq will hold affection and respect for America because of the Americans they met and came to know in our armed forces in the first years of the 21st century. And this will have implications, and they will not be unhappy.