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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: JohnM who wrote (41366)9/4/2002 2:04:39 AM
From: D. Long  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
Blaming the victim? Not very liberal of you John! You completely ignore two important facts: why Israel occupied and continues to occupy the territories, and Arafat is a terrorist. You obviously believe that, given the "proper conditions", Arafat would be a regular Thomas Jefferson. He's had 10 years to be a Thomas Jefferson and he gave the world this nightmare called the Intifidah. No more excuses, John. Move on.

So your solution is the status quo - support oppressive Arab regimes that keep Arabs impoverished, uneducated, and angry. All while we make the same mouth movements we do with China, to the same lack of effect. The problem is not human rights - it's the regime that feels it necessary to violate human rights to suppress dissent. If given a choice between internal order and yawning at US berating over human rights, they will choose internal order. That's what China does. I'm not arguing doing it in a year, five years, a decade. But we start with Iraq and Iran and we keep on the message for as long as it takes.

Derek
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