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Economics implies rationality...under pressure humans lose the ability to reason..fear, panic, rage all take over...it is the rare indivdual that keeps his head under adverse conditions... You can ask Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm 2nd about that one.

Perhaps what I have been leading to is that the West has been trying to fool itself into thinking that West is morally superior thus more civilized then the rest of humanity. The West after WW2 held War Crimes Trials, and now seem to abhor the use of force and/or have a collective hissy fit when there is any collateral damage in other words non combatant casualities or when there are any Allied Troop casualities. The news media screams out 2 more dead American Soldiers or 3 innocent civilians killed by US airstrike. When in actuality the West is as barbaric as the rest of humanity...after all it is the West that can turn a blind eye and do nothing to ameliorate the slaughter of millions taking place in the world, and it was the West that spawned Hitler. So to say the West plays by rules while others don't is a sham because the West only makes rules that give it an advantage. In other words the West stacks the deck.

Charlie Rose has made the arguement tonight which I have been making all along. That a USA military presence in Iraq, puts pressure on Iran, Syria and the Saudi's to do it our way...Thus the occupation or reconstruction if you like of Iraq was a GEOPOLITICAL MOVE. Thus the arguement over WMD and Oil are merely fluff meant to distract people from seeing whats actually going on. In a sense the US is telling the Muslim world these are the rules your going to play by or your going to be in a world of hurt...Kiss the Taliban Goodbye, Kiss Sadamn Goodbye...NEXT....Either your with US or against us. If U notice Iran, Syria and the Saudi's are saying yes to the US's requests a lot more quickly now.

I concur if GW is reelected in 2004 the strong arm of American Power will be given carte blanc...and it will be PAX AMERICANA.

The worse thing the US can do is give creedence to North Korea, to give them player status... to ignore them is to marginalize them and make them impotent...to do anything else is to feed their meglomania and then they will truly become a threat...because they will become heady with their own power.