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To: QwikSand who wrote (41782)	3/4/2001 11:23:10 PM
From: cfimx	Respond to of 64865

bush is smart enough to know he's not smart enough.

To: QwikSand who wrote (41782)	3/5/2001 12:00:04 PM
From: JDN	Respond to of 64865

Dear QS: I would rather have a decent and honorable person ideally with some good HORSE SENSE. You can always HIRE TALENT. Look at me!! (gg) jdn

To: QwikSand who wrote (41782)	3/6/2001 4:10:36 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Respond to of 64865

Hi Qwik, Bush has the right idea on the middle-east. He sees (correctly) that there are regional problems. Clinton's myopic vision lead him straigt into the Israeli-Palestinian quagmire. It really doesn't matter whether or not Clinton was too stupid (a distinct possibility) or too corrupt to focus on the region as a whole. The point is, he didn't address it. That is a dismal foreign policy failure that is now costing us in the USA economically in the form of higher energy prices. I actually heard an intelligent anaylsis of the middle east on TV from none other than Richard Holbrooke, Clinton's ambassador (or negotiator) to the region. He made it crystal clear that the problems in Israel & Palestine are being fomented by Iran, Iraq, and Syria. It is the adventurism/bonapartism of these tin-pot potentates (who really work for the west) that needs to be reigned in. The very first thing I head Colin Powell say about the middle east is that the US government had "regional concerns" that were bigger than Palestinian/Israeli peace negotitations. This was a direct slap at Clinton who put so much of the prestige of our government on line with the Camp David talks last year which precipitated the decline into inner-communal fighting in Israel and the West Bank/Gaza. His diplomacy will be firm and fair. He praised the bombing in Iraq then went over to the region himself to remind all these knuckleheads in power there just what their jobs were and what we expected of them. We'll revise the economic sanctions on Iraq (velvet glove) and take out Hussein's forces when they mis-behave (iron fist). Meanwhile he'll get the Arab states to sign on to agreements that will promote regional peace and stability. Before you know it, seemingly out of nowhere, oil prices will begin to moderate and the Israeli's & Palestinians will decide to go back to the table (Arafat & Sharon!!!). Now, who is smart and who is dumb. Clinton is a horse's ass to be sure. But, I don't buy into this idea that he is somehow at the same time brilliant and flawed. I think he is simply flawed.