gary >Q: Will Israel feel free to trounce Palestine once Iraq is contained?
This piece kind-of answers the question.
guardian.co.uk
>>>"A Palestinian state must be a reformed and peaceful state that abandons, forever, the use of terror."
The argument is that Iraq must be attacked, and then transformed, before any serious progress on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can take place.
The Bush approach effectively postpones, for several years at least, any real attempt to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict....<<<
Here's Charley Reese (with apologies to those who don't like him!):
reese.king-online.com
>>>Fairness was once the characteristic of the American republic. It consists simply of doing exactly what our great founder, George Washington, recommended: treat all countries the same, showing neither favoritism nor enmity to any. Moreover, he pleaded, do not involve yourself in other people's feuds and quarrels. And finally, he warned against the evils of foreign influence in our domestic affairs.
Every single foreign-policy problem we face, including the threat of terrorism, is a result of violating those three admonitions: We don't treat all nations the same; we do involve ourselves in other people's quarrels; and we have allowed foreign influence to exert tremendous influence on our policies. Far from being the republic Washington and his contemporaries gave us, we have become an empire, very much like Rome.<<< |
