In a message dated 2/28/2003 10:18:03 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> So, which results producing, quote, :"consensus", did you > want again John you cannot actually believe that the current adminstration has been building a consensus. It has been buying and bullying other countries. You cannot believe that we have not been telling the world for the past two years; screw you we will do what we want because we are morally superior to you and have the power to do anything we want. The anti-american sentiment in the world is real. It is inevitable that people will resent us but Bush has made our situation much more tenuous. All of the irrational protests over Iraq are the result of the way the high handed way we have gone about preparing for the war. It did not have to be that way. We had enormous good will after 9/11. A bit of humility would have made it easier to get support for the removal of Iraq. As to the trade thing. Rational actors would of course trade with us regardless about their feelings about but as we all know people and nations are not rational actors. People will in fact do things that disadvantage themselves a little as long as it disadvantages things they hate more.
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