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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (52135)	9/14/2001 6:32:33 PM
From: Jerome	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Sun....great post...about the best analysis I have read about the mis-adventures of US foreign policy. Here is the brick wall for US policy. With special forces and the help of other special forces from other countries, terrorists can be tracked down and killed. But destabilizing governments gets a whole more complicated and unpredictable. Not too long back we could not destabilize Cuba and that was only 90 miles from out shoreline. When I used to hike around the jungles of Africa, I used to think what would happen if a 1000 American Military men showed up to straighten things out. My conclusion was that the jungle and the land would swallow them up without a trace Bush's promise to go after the terrorists and the governments that harbor them.....the first half he will be successful at....the second part is pretty chancy. But lets give him a chance and a vote of confidence. Regards, Jerome

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (52135)	9/14/2001 7:53:19 PM
From: Hayduke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

ST, an excellent post. You mentioned a list of books, naming only Mission in Iran by William Sullivan. Could you tell us the other books you were thinking of? HD

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (52135)	9/14/2001 8:17:28 PM
From: Zeev Hed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Sun Tzu, I'll be the first to admit that US foreign policies (or should I say the policies of the CIA?) have been often misguided, I mentioned myself earlier the Allende overthrow, and I could mention as well that the Cuban missile crisis would have not happened if the Bulganin ultimatum against our allies (UK and France) was responded to differently, but all this is water under the bridge, none of these examples you cite connect the burning hate to the US to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, except a minor "commonality" of enemies for these extremists. If Israel would have lost the the 73 conflict and been eradicated, those extremists would still be trying to terrorize the US. As Mubarak himself stated, Bin Ladin is simply a "megalomaniac". Zeev