Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (33011)	6/24/2002 8:17:11 PM
From: paul_philp	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Nadine, They must be mourning at the Near Eastern desk of the State Department tonight. Now, there's a happy thought. -g- You made me laugh! Whodda thunk it. Thanks, I really needed a good laugh tonight. Paul p.s. Bush continues to make himself look like a spineless, policy-free, blow-in-the-wind president. I am cheering for him so I wonder how he looks to his enemies.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (33011)	6/24/2002 8:40:17 PM
From: epsteinbd	Respond to of 281500

Yes Nadine, the Arab world will enrage, but silently. Didn't Arafat call this speech a "significant contribution to peace", or very close, can't remember? Now Arafat knows that his last chip is on the table, and that the "things" spinning is not Bush, like said is next post, but his destiny and keffia. And even Allah can't shoot it out with W right now, because W will tell us that since 911, Allah owes him a lot - which he does, all Arabs know that deep inside, but we are not supposed to comment on it; as well as they know that Sharon is most eager, at best, to put Arafat on his private yacht, the Karine A, renamed "Ich Bin eine Fliegende Palestiner." Let History do us apart, Nadine!

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (33011)	6/25/2002 12:12:17 AM
From: jcky	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<< I find it hard to imagine anything better guaranteed to enrage the Arab world. The Palestinians will embrace terrorism twice as hard, to show they can't be bossed. >> This is unfortunate and I have to concur with your assessment. The ultimate insult to both the United States and Israel (as an act of defiance against Western hegemony) would be for the Palestinians to have free democratic elections, monitored and documented by a neutral third party, only to find that the chosen leader of Palestine is still Arafat. What then? So much for the theory of the United States acting as a honest and neutral broker for peace in the Middle East. I think President Bush just shot himself in the foot today. He has shown his poker hand way too early. << From Sharon's point of view, it's an improvement. From Bush's point of view, he should have kept his mouth shut. The US did itself no good today. >> Do I detect some concerns for US national interests, Nadine?