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To: humint
"Free trade is the road to world peace."

I think your roadmap was printed in China. International trade is not a new concept, it's thousands of years old and has brought with it no peace.

8 posted on 12/27/2005 11:21:07 PM PST by TheCrusader ("The frenzy of the mohammedans has devastated the Churches of God" Pope Urban II ~ 1097A.D.)
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To: TheCrusader
I think your roadmap was printed in China. International trade is not a new concept; it's thousands of years old and has brought with it no peace.

"Free trade" and "international trade" are discrete ideas. The first is the ideal form of the second. Iran is a threat to peace and regional stability so sanctions are good in order to isolate Iran and mitigate the threat Iran poses to peace. These new, “targeted” sanctions are a good wakeup call to the nations that host corporations who feed the Iranian threat. My comment to you about “free trade” was to suggest we not argue for the scope of our sanctions against Iran to expand to the point that we economically isolate ourselves. The primary component of the “Iran and Libya Sanctions Act” was to transform our sanctions against Iran and Libya from unilateral to multilateral sanctions. Unfortunately, the way the news was released makes an international backlash against these sanctions more likely. And any such backlash makes moves toward multilateral sanctions more difficult.

I checked my road map to see where it was made… It was made right here in the United States of America. The Bush Administration has been arguing for “free trade” and now “free and fair trade” for a long time. However he and his writers are not nearly as quick to make confusing analogies as I am, for obvious reasons.

13 posted on 12/28/2005 11:03:08 AM PST by humint ({@}) What would the world look like after you changed it? ({@})
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