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To: Dale Baker who wrote (23080)	7/6/2006 5:42:33 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 541478

Understanding why they get away with it wins you the kewpie doll. 1) No matter how powerful we are, we aren't powerful enough to take on either of them, Russia or China. 2) Besides which, all we really want to do is trade with them, and the customer is always right, as long as they keep their deals and we make money. Honestly, I don't get all the furor over North Korea. Maybe if I lived on the West Coast? Dunno. Kim Jung Il is a crazy man who's holding his own country hostage and threatening to shoot them in the head if we do anything. If so, it will be suicide by cop. Nobody wants to see innocent people get hurt so we're basically waiting him out, waiting for an opportunity.

To: Dale Baker who wrote (23080)	7/6/2006 5:44:20 PM
From: Jim S	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541478

"Unilateralism, unipolarity and "the world's only superpower" are outdated, irrelevant concepts. Very short shelf life." OTOH, every attempt to try to get them to join us, or even allow us to join them, has been rebuffed. We can't NOT be the world's superpower, can we? We are either the big kid on the playground, or we stay home from school. There really isn't much middle ground, short of us, the US, NOT being the superpower. Not many Americans would opt for that. At least, I hope not many would.