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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (5309)	10/16/2001 12:48:12 AM
From: margie	Respond to of 281500

The Editor of the Wall Street Journal, Richard Bartley, almost used your words "now that the State Department has all but declared that terrorism against us is bad, but terrorism against Israel is okay, the terrorism will intensify. It was on a special last night on CNBC and most of it is in today's editorial among the wall street Journal editors, Stuart Varney nterviewing all the Editors of the Wall Street Journal. Varney: "Are we entering an era of appeasement of Arab opinion." Bartley: "I don’t think it is so much appeasement. It is the State Department mindset. They have thought for thirty years that if only we could solve the Arab-Israeli conflict then Assad would be ok; we would have peace; Saddam would be ok. So, you get into this crisis and they say: Ok, so we got to do something about the Arabs and the Israelis. So they (the state Department) have this list of terrorists without Hamas and without Hezbollah on the list. They are terrorists. Bartley: "The message is: TERRORISM IS TERRIBLE EXCEPT WHEN IT IS DIRECTED AT ISRAEL. Then they are shocked that Sharon talks about Munich. Appeasement is almost too dignified. You wish they were thinking about it that much. Stuart Varney: "Because I am going back to 1938, Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister. We have actual footage of the events. “Let’s take a look at appeasement 1938.” Begin videotape: “Back from a meeting with Hitler in Munich comes British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, with an agreement on Hitler’s terms: Czechoslovakia will be dismembered; the Sudentland is given to Germany. but says Chamberlain: “THE MUNICH AGREEMENT MEANS PEACE FOR OUR TIME.” The reel shows Neville Chamberlain waving the paper up high in front of crowds. “Six months later, Hitler tears up the Munich agreement and the rape of democratic Czechoslovakia is complete. What remained of Czechoslovakia after Munich is wiped from the map.” Varney: "Are we making deals with dubious allies, and setting up for problems in the future by an appeasement policy? Are we doing that?" Henninger: I don’t think it is so so much appeasement as equivalence. The idea that Israel is just a country, no more or less different from Syria Iran and Iraq and that there are these political problems that have to be worked out with the proper equations of the balance of forces. Thereby reducing Israel, a democracy, to nothing different than the autocracies, dictatorships, and absolute monarchy that they live among. That is a really a formula for selling out our principles, and I think it is actually a formula for selling out any kind of long term resolution to this problem: which is addressing the nature of the political systems that foment this type of problem. Susan Lee: "They have already started having entanglements; with Russia, the US and the Northern alliance side who would just like to march into Kabul and get it done; but then you have Pakistan who says. “Oh no, too soon, too soon.” Finding the Key To the Middle East By ROBERT L. BARTLEY October 15, 2001 interactive.wsj.com “The kingdom is suffering black eyes as bin Laden's history and finances are exposed. It finances Muslim fundamentalism generally and often seems to buy off terrorists. Rudy Giuliani gave one of its princes the back of his hand over a $10 million gift accompanied by a lecture about Palestine. Good for him.” The United States is playing with fire by making these deals with rogue Arab states who hate us or whose citizens hate us. The US is upsetting the World Order..and balance with these shaky coalitions. I am afraid this will lead to a major war as the coaltions fall apart or cause rioting in their own country to those opposed to supporting the US. The US should have done what Israel does. Targeted killings; done quietly, without 24 hour coverage by CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC all sympathetic to him, trying to understand what makes them hate us. Targeted killings. Save the civilians. Save us all.