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Dec. 8th, 2006 07:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnny9fingersWorry that K Milligan may be right about Iran - if he's right, and I'm right about the Sunnis siding with Al-Qaeda, we're really deep in the shit, unless Syria can act for the Sunnis, and remove the need for...etc etc, which leads to Iran needing to balance the Syrian influence..etc etc.
And which could leave us as brokers, not breakers. Which brings me back to my original point about Diplomacy, which is different from appeasement.
(Appeasement actually sounds like what Tony Blair gives GWB.)
There is always advantage to be won, even with (to use the Piquet phrase) junior hand. We can lose, as well, but so can the stock market - the trick, surely is to be ahead of the game, to know more, to have better strategies, and , most importantly, to have a better long term performance.
And which could leave us as brokers, not breakers. Which brings me back to my original point about Diplomacy, which is different from appeasement.
(Appeasement actually sounds like what Tony Blair gives GWB.)
There is always advantage to be won, even with (to use the Piquet phrase) junior hand. We can lose, as well, but so can the stock market - the trick, surely is to be ahead of the game, to know more, to have better strategies, and , most importantly, to have a better long term performance.
