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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: tekboy who wrote (65543)1/12/2003 5:43:15 AM
From: paul_philp  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 

I think, in other words, that the hardliners still really see this as a zero-sum game, and worry that they will take Pal war-weariness as an excuse to increase their demands rather than an opportunity to move forward somehow. I hope I'm wrong.


Tekboy,

How do you see 9-11 and security concerns factoring into the US hardline thinking? I imagine that a successful peace between Israel and the Palestinians would remove some of the fuel that fires Arab terrorists willing to attack the US on US soil. If this is the case, wouldn't just 'fixing the damn problem' fit the hardliner worldview more than seeking an optimal solution. I imagine that 9-11 has made pragmatists of the hardliners.

Of course, it serves no purpose right now, the pragmatic thing is to wait for Nadine's 4 events to transpire. I suspect that some American war weariness will start emerging soon:
- we beat the Taliban and are rebuilding the country;
- we stared down N. Korea and got what we wanted (that my not be what really happens but N. Korea knows about allowing Bush to save face at home);
- we beat Saddam, lost a lot of good soldiers and now are rebuilding the country; and,
- we a still chasing and catching the AQ with some success and Osama is now a living ghost but very powerful still dead or alive.

I can see at that point that Americans might not feel very happy about another campaign. There may more awareness and urgency for a succesful peace in America that ever before.

Tekboy, this is all involving the US pschye in a way which has never been eganged. It is the sons and daughter of America dying now. It is our towers being blown up now.

Paul
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