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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (8259)	8/14/2006 12:57:06 AM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217733

"Iraqi" doesn't mean a whole lot. Many people in the area have an ethnic/sectarian identity first (Kurds, Marsh Arabs, Shia) then family, clan or tribe which was often almost equal to the "national" identity as Iragi. Not as bad a Yugoslavia, but not even like Belgium (French vs. Flemish). Maybe like Chezkoslovakia.... Unfortuantely the US has been dragged into nation building.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (8259)	8/14/2006 1:40:23 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217733

Ron, <<Now tell me that China doesn't have "pull" in Pyongyang??>> I told you before - China: "stop it, or we will cut off your accesses (in an act of overt hostility)" N.Korea: "No way, and go pound sand (you do and we will fight you)" Short conversation, since China has zero incentive and no stomach to fight N.Korea. China is busy. <<Millions of N. Koreans have starved because of the abuses of Pyongyang's "Dear Father-Dear Son" and it's powderkeg that will only grow more dangerous as the years go on.>> ... China's foreign policy is not founded on introducing change from the outside, but on each people to determine own poison. <<If Bejing can't understand the danger that exists from a regime that is so intransigent that it seems dead set upon a path of self-destruction, then they are fools.>> ... My interpretation is that China understands that change must be from within, and if N.Korea is set upon SELF-destruction, then it shall be. <<It need not result is "picking a fight" with Kim Jong Il>> ... this is where we differ on respective understanding of N.Korea. Get in their way, and they will fight. <<He certainly must set aside his delusions of re-uniting the two Koreas under his control>> ... Chinese foreign policy is not premised on telling any nation on what they must and must not do, - <<they have failed to step up to the plate and assume their share of the burden.>> ... but premised on, "do not catch other people's lice to put in own hair" As foreign policies go, it seems to work, especially for a nation that is otherwise very busy.