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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (118902)11/8/2003 5:07:47 PM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Hi Nadine Carroll; Re: "Far too simplistic. What about a case where 10% of the population support the resistance, and 90% hate it?"

I love how you blow both hot and cold on the subject of the well, subjected Arabs. On the Palestinians, you say that they're hopelessly addicted to terror, but on the Iraqis, you say that they hate it.

The evidence suggests that the Iraqis are better at it than the Palestinians. Or at least that they have more targets.

The simple fact is that in the same period where we've trained tens of thousands of Iraqi police, attacks against our forces have increased several times, in both quantity and quality.

It will be interesting to see if the US is able to clean out its abandoned munitions when it runs away from Iraq. If Vietnam is any guide, what we'll do is give a bunch of nice weapons to the "good" side in Iraq, and then, a year or two after we leave, all our weapons will become the property of the "evil" side.

Any ideas on how that will impact on Israel? I'm curious. Sort of think that it will be bad, but I haven't seen any analysis from the Israelis.

I would guess that they're working out the likely consequences in private. Maybe that top Israeli military guy was thinking about the Iraqi munitions problem when he opined that Sharon's policies were increasing the terror problem. Nothing like a little dose of reality to get the "bitter enders / die hards" to the bargaining table.

-- Carl
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