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To: LindyBill who wrote (168001)	6/5/2006 8:44:11 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 793820

But when you remove Iraq from the nuclear future you ought to have been able to say alright, this is what we can do. We can give Israel a security guarantee; we can give them the kinds of weapons that would be of much more utility to them then any nuclear weapon can possibly be. We’ll give Iran a security guarantee against Israel. They may not credit American intentions, but they may believe the guarantees of the Europeans, and we can denuclearise this region. That is so obviously a solution that it hardly takes somebody as clever as the people in this room to come up with it. Its only a solution if you can trust everyone to follow it. And why would you expect Iran to follow it, or Israel to accept it? I find it funny how this is proposed as a solution just after Philip Bobbitt says - "The Commission, thank you. And they would say ‘you take Chicago, and you take LA, you take Vegas, and we’ll split up the organisation’. It didn’t work. They didn’t keep their agreements, they lied, they cheated. It didn’t work because they were criminal, for heaven’s sake! <Laughter> Why would you expect it to work?" Well why would you expect rouge regimes like Iran to act more cohesively for the world's benefit than various organized crime families acted cohesively for their collective benefit? Tim