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To: yard_man who wrote (16529)	9/29/1998 2:53:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18056

Tippet, <<Empty threats to IRAQ.>> How many times do we have to bomb them? This is a UN affair, which is what it should be. Last thing the US should be is a unilateral world enforcer. You would like us perhaps to invade them? <<Cozying up to the Chinese because they helped him get elected>> Also because they're about the only country in Asia that's handling their economic affairs with any degree of responsibility lately. Any particular reason to push them into a place where they have less incentive to cooperate? <<not taking a stand for human rights>> Never bothered us when we were subsidizing subhuman troglodytes like Somoza, Marcos, Pinochet, etc. China has moved more to open up in the last 6 years than in the previous 30. There is nothing at all the US can do to speed that process - which, judging from the Russian debacle, would be a mistake in any event. <<giving them satellite technology.>> So what? They already have ICBM's, and the significance of the technology in question has been blown way, way, out of proportion as a political gambit. The point is not to try to disarm them, but to move them into a position where they have too much to gain from sitting in the boat to think about sinking it. <<Vacuous policy regarding former Yugoslavia.>> Pretty vacuous situation, and again, one in which unilateral action would be a huge mistake. Should be a European show - their backyard, and it's past time for them to start taking responsibility for what goes on there. I'm not really a big Clinton fan, and I didn't vote for him. I live abroad, though, and travel a lot, and I have to say that the US has gained a lot more respect in the last 6 years than it ever had under the previous 4 presidents, who were largely viewed as a series of rather bad jokes. A foreign policy blunder? How about the Reagan/Bush handling of Russia's move out of communism? We're just beginning to see the repercussions of that one. How about, again, our support for Somoza and Marcos, which drove Nicaragua straight into the communist camp and came damned close to doing the same for the Philippines? Bill's blunders - and every American administration has had some - seem pretty petty by comparison. Steve