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1) Russia has been treating the US as an adversary, not an ally, for much of the past decade.

2) If we're allies, not adversaries, why should Russia care whether or not the US develops an ABM system to protect us against everyone else who is capable -- or soon will be capable -- of lobbing WMD missiles at us?

3) If Central Asia is China's area, then they are in part responsible for the problems coming out of there.

4) Iraq is Russia's ally? That's nice, it used to be the US's ally, too. Now it's a festering sore that is sooner or later going to erupt and spread its poisonous infection, yet again. Someone needs to lance it. If Russia won't, we'll have to.

5) The Muslim nations don't need an excuse to attack Isreal. They're going to do it again, no matter what.

6) The Islamist extremists don't need an excuse to attack the US. They're going to do it again, no matter what. Unless they're stopped (permanently.)

7) The US cannot afford to continue playing diplomatic footsie at the expense of our national defense and security.

8) The only legitimate complaint in this whole thing is the possible breakup of Iraq and the resulting regional instability.

Just for the record, my husband agrees with Russia in regard to Iraq. He says Iraq was only peripherally involved with the attacks on the US, and aren't our problem any more than Iran is our problem.

He says our true enemy is the House of Saud, and nothing will be resolved until they are neutralized.