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I let Adi take a look at the posting below before I put it up, as I was purporting to speak on her behalf. She’s at work, so she replied thusly:

Hey,baby,
go ahead and post it, except add this:
my other main point is that simply the US should be more considerate of the current explosive situation the world is in. as the world’s only superpower and, as such, having a better chance to at least try to improve it, the US should be more receptive to the comments of its allies. I know that diplomacy goes nowhere with Iraq and i’m sure the world would be a safer place without our Saddam, so I think I’d support a war to depose him, but only if it came as a result of the approval of other countries, and at least a vague plan of a new Iraqi government (including what would happen with Iraq’s immense oil reserves, and then, unavoidably, with OPEC, etc.). I haven’t seen any of it yet, certainly not in the NYT or The Economist.

I think right now the US is not in a position to act alone because it should see and acknowledge that many countries have problems with its bullyish approach. Instead of trying to better communicate what the US wants, the cowboy just bluntly expresses what’s going to happen, period. “It has to be written in plain English so if the boys in Lubbock read it they should understand it” or something like it he said about the new UN resolution Condi Rice put together for him (he probably didn’t get it first, either).

It’s the attitude that’s a huge problem here. I’m sure average America agrees with him. i read somewhere that most Americans actually believe that they’re better than the rest of the world. Excuse me. i’ve always had problems with the US’s proudly admitted “superiority” but like other sensitive people i was very sad about Sept 11. However, if Bush will continue to ignore his “friends” and will unilaterally go to war (which he will), and if this war will bring about terrorist acts via fanatics, I will blame Mr. President for them big time.

As Magyar Narancs’s excellent Sept 11. anniversary summary by Arat? Andr?s said it in the end: “If Bush attacks Iraq unilaterally, all that we, New Yorkers, can do, is run. Because one terrorist attack was enough for a lifetime, thank you.”

Now you can post it.

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