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To: tejek who wrote (133060)	2/18/2001 11:23:28 AM
From: f.simons	Read Replies (1) of 1570879

Why not the Israelis? What about the Australians? Where were the Canadians? The Israelis and the Americans agreed a long time ago that Israel simply cannot be involved in military actions like this. That is why Israel didn't even counter-attack when Saddam was raining missiles down on them during the Gulf war. What about the Australians? Where were the Canadians? There are serious logistical problems involved for both countries in addition to the fact that both were probably home minding their own business. American and British pilots and planes are the ones being threatened by Saddam's radar installations. You can argue that we shouldn't have forces there at this point, but not that they don't have a right to defend themselves once there. Why did Jordan and Egypt condemn the move. Because it is easy to do. The area is a little tender now, and their interests in placating Saddam are greater than other considerations. Ditto for the French. They recently refused to participate in efforts to have a human rights censure of the Chinese on the grounds that it could affect trade. As usual, the French are not shy about accepting the benefits of the military efforts of other countries, while repectfully declining to share in the costs of them. Like Harry, are you upset because I am not behaving blindly patriotic......that whatever the President does has to be good for the country...no matter what. I don't have a clue who Harry is. If he posted something, I came on the thread after his post. In any event, I am not upset muchless blindly patriotic. You haven't read many of my political posts to even suggest such a thing. I don't particularly like Bush, and certainly did not vote for him. I am not even sure I agree with the strikes that were made. However, to suggest that the failure of other "allies" to participate proves that the strikes were ill-advised, which was your original point, is simply inaccurate, IMO. Frank

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