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Politics : The Palestinian Hoax -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: chalu2 who wrote (452)	7/2/2002 3:16:44 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3467

chalu2, Re: If that's true, and that is strategic American policy, and it is good for America, shouldn't Americans support it? If you read some history of British imperialism, you'll find out that the Israel was a key component of Middle East policy, as was the creation out of whole cloth of Iraq in the aftermath to WW I. Iraq was intended to serve as another "wedge" preventing Persia, a regrouping Ottoman Empire or France's quisling Syria from achieving ascendency in the region. It's worked spectacularly well for 80 years. We'll never get rid of Saddam because he's just too damn useful. Re: my guess is that Israel's existence has done more to coalesce the Arab world than any other factor possibly could. And you would be guessing wrong. Arabic speakers lack a coherent leadership. The last true Arab leader was Gamal Nassar in the 1950's. He almost got the unity needed to overwhelm the Israelis. That's why Dayan and the others used such ruthless viciousness in their preemptive genocide in 1967. The Israelis very effectively ended the pan-Arabian unity that was likely to overwhelm Israel, should Nassar have been given adequate time to marshall the forces that were only half prepared at the time of attack. Re: A more ready reason is that the US does not want to be seen abandoning allies. What are doing to destroy your mind? Haven't you been following history? You do recall at the end of the Gulf War that Poppy Bush incited the Shias in the Basra district and the Kurds in northern Iraq and once they commenced uprisings, Bush abandoned them both to the butchers of Saddam Hussein. Does the U.S. give up its allies? Always! You do recall that Ho Chi Minh, in 1947, sent a letter to President Harry Truman, praising the U.S. system, admiring the writings of the Founding Fathers, in particular the U.S. Constitution and that Truman, under advisement from his Secretary of State never even acknowledged the letter, because we were supporting French colonialists and not supporting George Washington imitators. You do recall that, don't you? Re: Taiwan - We're there because we like the oligarchic and corrupt remnants of Chaing Kai-Shek's reactionary forces. We always support reactionaries. That's the essence of U.S. foreign policy. -Ray