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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: RetiredNow who wrote (247109)8/23/2005 3:00:04 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1572474
 
I'm a Catholic, so I don't pay much attention to Evangelical Christians. They have more exreme views than I do. RObertson in particular is a crackpot.

Yes, but his comments reflect on all Christians just as an irreverent Sunni mullah reflects on all Muslims. Haven't we condemned all Muslim mullahs for the comments by a few?

As far as Chavez goes, that is EXACTLY why we cannot assassinate him. He was duly elected. But we should NOT be ignoring him either. He is virulently anti-American. So we should be engaging with him and finding out why? What are his grievances? Why are the people of Venezuela so open to his viewpoints? What can we do to improve the relationship?

Bush and he got into because they are on opposite ends of the political spectrum. And if you go back and look at the origins of the dispute, I believe it started with Bush. This is just one more example of a poorly formulated foreign policy by the current administration.

Do you understand how damaging this is for the US? Two of the three or four most important countries in S. America are democratically-elected gov'ts from the left. They are not dictatorships but democracies. Is the US so narrow in its POV that it can't interact maturely with a left leaning democracy? Because I'll tell you, the GOP doesn't seem to be capable of such mature behavior........at least it hasn't in the case of Chavez and Brazil.

If the GOP wants to continue to be a national party, then it better get its act together asap.

My point being that we have always treated central and south America as unwanted step-children. That has to stop. We need to be active developers of those countries.

In what way? We own most of their industries. What more development do you want?
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