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To: Ilaine who wrote (24698)	7/21/2006 3:56:50 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541374

Well, it seems to me that what you're saying is "reality is what Tim Fowler says it is." Everyone has their opinion, including me. I was asserting two things. 1 - A specific opinion about what the treaty says (with a direct quote of the relevant passage to back me up), and 2 - That Stevens doesn't determine what the treaty says just by staring his opinion. I was not asserting a privileged position for my own opinion, just denying one for Stevens. Actually I don't even go that far, he does have a privileged position in the sense that his opinion has active legal force. But that privilege is one of power over how the government will act, it doesn't give him the ability to make something true just by saying it is. It doesn't make him automatically right or even particularly prone to being right. I doubt you automatically accept anything that Stevens says as automatically correct either, even what he says in the context of legal decisions. He just happens to agree with you on this one.