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Politics : The Arab-Israeli Solution -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (358)	4/24/2001 6:02:52 PM
From: jbn3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2279

Ground Zero, I did not pose the question of whether the US should or should not be engaged in surveillance operations. I personally think that we probably should be (and spent a large portion of my life doing exactly that). I would love to see a world where it was neither necessary nor prudent. What I did do, was to try to factually and unemotionally make three points: a. We spy and they spy; fact of life in this world community. b. They treated the aircraft in exactly the same way we treated the Cuban MiG, and for the same reasons. c. They treated our crew members, whom they knew to be foreign intelligence-gathering personnel, better than we treated an innocent person, Dr. Wen Ho Lee, whom we merely suspected of being a foreign agent. Nowhere in this incident do I perceive anything that would constitute valid grounds for a nationalistic fervor of anti-Chinese feeling or a blind and thoughtless witch hunt, a lá Mccarthy. Like you, I am quite aware that our two countries do not have the closest and most amicable of political relations. But they have been improving steadily for years now. Hopefully, they will continue to do so, for in that direction lies the road to a better future for both. -jbn3