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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (177781)11/13/2003 11:35:04 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1572633
 
The most common conclusion was that until the United States does something concrete to force Israel to free millions of Palestinians kept under military occupation, all American statements about greater democracy and freedom will ring hollow.

That's just silly. If we don't free Tibet or North Korea does that mean any statements we make about Democracy or freedom are hollow? In any case the Palestinians aren't really less free then many other Arabs and if they had a government run by Arafat rather then being under the occupation of Israel they still would not be free. The US's attempt to undermine Arafat didn't work but it was an attempt to increase the freedom of Palestinians (yes there where ulterior motives as well). It would increase their chances at being free from Israeli occupation (the Israelis have no trust of Arafat and so probably won't offer him a Palestinian state) and it would increase their chances of having some decent level of freedom in a new Palestinian state once such a state is created.

The vision that Mr. Bush painted was an appealing one, wrote Sahar Baasiri, a columnist in the Lebanese daily Al-Nahar, "But before it is translated into tangible policies that deal with real problems, it will remain boring, empty rhetoric."

Removing Saddam is a lot more then empty rhetoric. That was a very tangible way of dealing with a real problem. Still I understand his skepticism before something close to a decent final result is achieved.

Tim
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