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 : Formerly About Applied Materials -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cary Salsberg who wrote (65540)	9/3/2002 10:39:08 AM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Who is my hero, pray tell? Palestinians indeed have been crushed and Sharon does now have a free hand. The Palestinians leaders who came out against terrorism did so on moral grounds--a first. Hamas and Al Aksa have been weakened with targeted assassinations. Their policy is bankrupt. Palestinians are not dumb and will reconsider. I always wondered why they didnt adopt civil rights tactics. It would work against the Israelis on the west bank big time especially if israeli army met hand-holders with force. Arab dwellers in the west bank perhaps dont deserve freedom given the appalling way in which they have acted but in order for peace to come, they must control their destiny. They must also swear not to go after Israel and engage in future terrorism at the same time and this oath must be seen as credible. mike

To: Cary Salsberg who wrote (65540)	9/3/2002 6:08:20 PM
From: Terry D	Respond to of 70976

The credibility gap. "In the beginning, the justification for ''regime change'' in Baghdad was entirely a matter of the threat Hussein represents but no more. Now the justification includes protecting the integrity of threat. We have to go to war now because we said we would. Language is no longer an expression of purpose but the shaper of purpose." "The United States, in fact, is in a crisis of language. This is what it means to have a president who, proudly inarticulate, has no real understanding of the relationship between words and acts, between rhetoric and intention." "Bush governs by assertion instead of persuasion. Whether the United States seeks to exercise power over the Taliban, or over Sharon and Arafat, or over Russia, or over its European allies, or even over its own citizens, the method is the same. Washington doesn't waste a moment trying to persuade the Taliban to side with us against bin Laden. Washington rejects Arafat as a dialogue partner and forgoes any effort to influence Sharon. Washington presents Moscow with ultimatums on arms control treaties... He is the maestro of disconnect between words and experience. Having emptied the word ''evil'' of meaning (Iran is evil, but perhaps also our ally), Bush is now - incredibly - emptying the word ''war'' of meaning, too." James Carroll - Boston Globe