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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: RMF who wrote (195297)8/6/2006 4:10:13 AM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (4) of 281500
 
Hi RMF; Re: "Should they pull back to the 1967 borders and say they are a pacifistic nation and will not respond if attacked?"

I doubt that that would work. Of course the Arabs would still attack them.

Re: "Do you think the fellow from Iran will say that he's willing to accept them then?"

I'm quite certain he never will. Furthermore, I think that if Israel kills him, he will be replaced by another guy who says the same thing.

After we leave Iraq, the new democratic government there will begin tormenting Israel as their citizens demand. If other countries in the ME are democratized, those nations will also fight with Israel.

Increasing the level of democracy in the states friendly to Israel will cause them to become less friendly. Democracy and peace are too very different things as the people who watched Hitler get elected learned very well. US efforts to increase democracy in the ME are anti Israel as any poll of the locals will reveal.

You seem to be missing my point. I'm saying that Israel has no permanent solution, only a series of temporary ones that eventually result in no solution at all. And I'm saying that the US can't solve Israel's problems for it.

Everyone is convinced that their side is "right" and that "justice" is on their side. To get support from others, they try to convince them of their version of the "facts". But wars are not fought with words as weapons.

If you could bottle up the words of the Iranian politician and use that as a cluster munition, then maybe you'd be on to something. But it turns out that military experience has demonstrated over and over that words are quite useless, especially the words of an opposing leader.

By the way, when wars go well, the citizens of a country tend to look up to what their leaders are saying and to convince themselves that they are great speakers with golden oratory that are very inspiring. Countries tend to unite during wartime behind the leaders. The rulers of both Allied and Axis powers during WW2 provide great examples of this. Compare this tendency with the Israeli press reaction to Olmert's comments on this recent conflict.

-- Carl
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