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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Geoff Altman who wrote (714349)	11/21/2005 2:53:45 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (5) of 769667

Including Israel muddies the entire situation. We need to have Israel fend for themselves. We have and continue to give them significant monetary and military aid and they need to fend for themselves with what we give them. Israel needs to build their own bridge with the Arabs. They can use Egypt and Jordan and possibly Lebanon for a start. Israel can work closely with King Abdullah of Jordan who has excellent relations with Bashir Assad because they went to the same school in London. They went around chasing women together. That is how close their relationship is. Bashir desires to breakout from his father's shadow. The US can work with King Abdullah to help Bashir do that. He does not desire to be surrounded by those people who surrounded his father and continue to surround him now. He doesn't need those uncles telling him what to do. He is Western educated like King Abdullah. The US can also establish a bridge with Syria through schemes such as massive scholarships to Syrian youths to come to the US for higher education etc. etc. During the Cold War the mind set of the US was to focus on the USSR. That now needs to change in order to combat the rise of Islamic fundamentalism. Towards the achievement of that goal, the US should not seek bases in Arab lands as they did during the Cold War. Instead they should pull out and train the Arab armies through joint US-Saudi, US-Egypt military exercises. Encourage Pakistan to do the same with their Arab neighbors. Use the CIA to destabilize the mullahs in Iran. Keep them busy guessing so that they spend most of their time guarding their backs instead of planning to walk into Iraq. And most important of all, work with the Western democracies. Not go it alone. Follow the Sr. Bush model who because of his international experience as CIA chief and Ambassador to China. had a very good understanding of the world nations. And lastly, removing Saddam was a blunder. He was a local bully; he tried to bully Kuwait, he reigned in Iran, he provided the regional stability. He became that way because he misread the encouragement that the US provided him in the 70s and 80s. Presidents Bush Sr. and Clinton timed him out and sent him to the corner of the room. Bush Jr. should have kept it that way and slowly brought him back to our fold. But he was removed forcibly and now the US has to dig in there because of fear of instability.

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