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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (9781)	7/25/2001 6:33:23 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

You guarantee that, eh? We'll just have to wait and see what Osama bin Laden (whose stature has been greatly magnified by this last episode) chooses to do next.

To: jlallen who wrote (9781)	7/25/2001 8:29:46 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

A good article from The Weekly Standard about why our response in the MidEast was exactly the wrong one: Feature July 30, 2001/Vol 6, Number 43 A Cowering Superpower It's time to fight back against terrorism. By Reuel Marc Gerecht In December 1999, the Clinton administration issued a worldwide terrorist alert to Americans overseas advising them to avoid crowded millennial celebrations. Bomb-toting Islamic militants under the banner of the Saudi terrorist Usama bin Laden had declared war, so Americans were to stay discreetly indoors while other Westerners partied. In Israel and Jordan, American Christians were strongly advised to avoid any public manifestation of their faith. Vexed by the growing number, geographical range, and fearfulness of Washington's warnings, one senior Foreign Service officer declared the millennial alarm "the chicken-little PR finale of America's cover-your-ass foreign policy." Unfortunately, this hard-nosed diplomat was wrong. The policy he deplored was not about to end. The Bush administration has continued and actually surpassed its predecessor's display of timidity in the Middle East. The possibility of terrorist attacks recently prompted the Pentagon to withdraw U.S. Marines from military exercises in Jordan and hastily move ships anchored in Bahrain, the home base of the U.S. Navy in the Persian Gulf. Likewise, pistol-packing FBI officials investigating the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole in Aden, Yemen, decided to scoot—against the counsel of the State Department and the U.S. embassy in San'a—when they thought a terrorist attack might be imminent. Which prompts the question: Are we a great power or not? If we are, then what in the world are we doing running from men whose mission in life it is to make us flee? If Marines and men-of-war cannot hold their own against the specter of a Saudi terrorist, how will our friends, let alone our enemies, in the macho Middle East measure us against real heavyweights like Saddam Hussein or the clerics of Iran? continued at theweeklystandard.com BTW, have you noticed that on this issue you are arguing the left-wing position and I am arguing the right-wing one?