October 31, 2002

THE FOREST:

US may seek bilateral Latam trade deals - Zoellick (Reuters, 10.29.02)
The United States has developed a short list of Latin American countries it would like to negotiate bilateral free-trade deals with if hemisphere-wide negotiations sputter, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick said on Tuesday.

It was just a few months ago that the navel-gazing libertarian Right had hypnotized itself--by staring at meaningless steel tarrifs for hours on end--into believing that the Bush administration secretly opposed free trade. Now the Administration is mere months away from announcing significant expansions of NAFTA. Which shows it's not just the Left that hasn't figured W out yet. Posted by Orrin Judd at October 31, 2002 1:22 PM
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by Thomas Sowell is related.



Politics is about the possible, which is something that the political fringes sometimes forget (or pretend otherwise).

Posted by: Kevin Whited at October 31, 2002 12:34 PM

If you never get to wield power you can nurse romantic notions about it.

Posted by: oj at October 31, 2002 1:56 PM

Too bad they don't speak Spanish in Australia. But the list cited isn't a bad start. Notably missing are Brazil and Argentina. I think the sucking sound to the south is the new model toilet flushing into the Rio Plata.

Posted by: Tom Roberts at October 31, 2002 3:13 PM
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