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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: RetiredNow who wrote (222230)3/7/2005 6:02:19 AM
From: Taro  Read Replies (1) of 1573420
 
The potential at this juncture is just huge and Bush is pressing his advantages... the potential is higher than it has been at any time in the last 50 years. It just so happened that the catalyst was Bush and his hardball tactics in the Middle East. The softball tactics of the last 50 years didn't achieve squat....I only wish that we had a statesman with Clinton-like charm and negotiation skills to close the deal in the Middle East. Hardball got us this far, but statesmanship will have to get us the rest of the way there.

All true, except IMO the very end. More hardball, probably
a LOT more, is going to be needed to solve the fundamentalist Muslim problem.
Statesmanship works best when your
accomplishments with hardball are sufficient and very
well known, established and understood. Bush is not
there yet.

It is probably always wise to leave the vanquished
room to save some face with your statesmanship. But
first you have to make it absolutely clear whose
viewpoint is going to prevail. We are not even close
yet, in my opinion, to establishing that within the hardcore
Muslim world. Bush's strategy appears at present to
be achieving some positive results, but he's got a
long way still to go.

Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, etc., still have to change
in a big way, for just three examples. Switching to
the diplomatic approach now would most likely waste
nearly everything that Bush has accomplished to
this point.

Taro
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