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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MSI who wrote (4846)	2/1/2003 10:07:56 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Respond to of 25898

Jewish drive to divide Americans from their European/Christian roots. The overwhelming majority of people in Europe and America are held together in a spiritual, cultural and ethnic bond. Jews have never felt a part of this spiritual, cultural and blood community. Since Jesus has always been the central theme and icon of the European-American bond, the anti-Chrisian imperative of Talmudic Judaism has always felt alienated from the central motifs of European/Christian Civilization. Jewish/Zionist leaders now see an opportunity to drive a hateful wedge between this European/American Christian/ethnic brotherhood. [Here's the ongoing Jewish war with Europe. Jews have free reign to smear anyone in its endless dual moral standard. Jews of course are beyond criticism.] Anti-Europeanism in America, The New York Review of Books, February 13, 2003 "This year, especially if the United States goes to war against Iraq, you will doubtless see more articles in the American press on 'Anti-Americanism in Europe.' But what about anti-Europeanism in the United States? Consider this: To the list of polities destined to slip down the Eurinal of history, we must add the European Union and France's Fifth Republic. The only question is how messy their disintegration will be. (Mark Steyn, Jewish World Review, May 1, 2002) And: Even the phrase 'cheese-eating surrender monkeys' is used [to describe the French] as often as the French say 'screw the Jews.' Oops, sorry, that's a different popular French expression. (Jonah Goldberg, National Review Online, July 16, 2002) Or, from a rather different corner: "You want to know what I really think of the Europeans?" asked the senior State Department Official. "I think they have been wrong on just about every major international issue for the past 20 years." (Quoted by Martin Walker, UPI, November 13, 2002) ... Pens are dipped in acid and lips curled to pillory 'the Europeans,' also known as 'the Euros,' 'the Euroids," "the 'peens," or "the Euroweenies." Richard Perle, now chairman of the Defense Policy Board, says Europe has lost its 'moral compass' and France its 'moral fiber.' This irritation extends to the highest levels of the Bush administration. In conversations with senior administration officials I found that the phrase 'our friends in Europe' was rather closely followed by 'a pain in the butt.' The current stereotype of Europeans is easily summarized. Europeans are wimps. They are weak, petulant, hypocritical, disunited, duplicitous, sometimes anti-Semitic and often anti-American appeasers ... Two prominent American journalists, Thomas Friedman of The New York Times and Joe Klein of The New Yorker, back from extensive book tours around the United States, separately told me that wherever they went they found anti-French sentiment— you would always get a laugh if you made a dig at the French ... [Jonah] Goldberg told me that when he started writing anti-French pieces for National Review in 1998 he found 'there was a market for it.' French-bashing became, he said, 'a shtick.'" ... Conservative writ-ers such as Jonah Goldberg and Mark Steyn make outrageous statements, some of them obviously humorous, some semi-serious, some quite serious. If you object to one of the serious ones, they can always reply 'but of course I was only joking!' Humor works by exaggeration and playing with stereotypes. But if a European writer were to describe 'the Jews' as 'matzo-eating surrender monkeys' would that be understood as humorous banter?" nybooks.com

To: MSI who wrote (4846)	2/2/2003 4:33:15 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 25898

Who Has the Hot Rods? By MAUREEN DOWD Columnist The New York Times February 2, 2003 WASHINGTON — Colin Powell finally has the goods on the evil dictator. He has spy satellite photos of trucks pulling up to buildings in the outlaw regime when inspectors aren't around, lots of bustling activity around those metal rods for the nukes threatening civilization. Mr. Powell has all the evidence he needs to convince the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday that we are justified in making a pre-emptive strike on North Korea. Only one hitch: President Bush doesn't want to attack North Korea; he wants to contain North Korea. He doesn't want to contain Iraq, he told reporters on Friday, because "after September the 11th, the doctrine of containment just doesn't hold any water, as far as I'm concerned." Except when it comes to North Korea, where Condoleezza Rice has proposed a tailored containment that can "check Kim Jong Il." The Bush administration has made fuzzy evidence against Saddam Hussein sound scarier than it is, and scary evidence against Kim Jong Il sound fuzzier than it is. All week the Bushies did Cirque du Soleil contortions to show that we need to drop 3,000 precision bombs and missiles on Saddam's fedora right away because he might someday hook up with Al Qaeda and might someday cook up nuclear weapons. Not wanting to deflect attention from savaging Saddam, the administration played ostrich on North Korea until Friday, when the Navy sent Rummy an S.O.S. for more forces to spook the spooky Kim Jong Il. President Bush, during his press conference with Tony Blair, warned that Saddam had "weeks, not months" before facing U.S. wrath, even as Mohammed ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, warned that it would be "weeks and months" before North Korea could begin churning out nukes faster than the chocolates hurtling down Lucy's conveyor belt. Rattling off the diameters of nuclear parts, Bush aides argued that Mr. ElBaradei was wrong to say that Iraq's aluminum tubes were for making rockets, not nukes. Meanwhile, they claimed that the satellite evidence of Pyongyang's nuclear fuel rod activity was no big deal. Some Bush aides wanted to rush to declassify spy photos of Iraqi trucks but were in no hurry to show photos of those North Korean trucks pulling up to the Yongbyon nuclear complex. Mr. Powell will use intercepted conversations to prove that Iraq is deceiving the U.N. Newsweek reports that the conversations consist of snippets like "Move that" and "Can you believe they missed that?" So Iraq, lying about nascent nukes, cannot stand. But North Korea, brazenly proliferating nukes, can? Mr. Bush has a point: that Saddam might become a merchant of mass destruction to terrorists. North Korea is already one of the biggest dealers in the weapons bazaar, selling Scud parts to Yemen and missile technology to Pakistan and Iran. The one-legged Qaeda man who seems straight out of "The Fugitive" is part of an evidence bag on Iraq that is highly circumstantial. Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi may have had something to do with the killing of the American diplomat Laurence Foley, but there is no proof that Mr. Zarqawi is working with the Iraqis. He may have left Baghdad two months before the murder. The president was asked pointedly by a British reporter if there was a tie between Saddam and the 9/11 hijackers. He did not claim one. Mr. Bush shouldn't reach for strained rationales. We're going to war against Saddam because we can. (If we go after Kim Jong Il, he could destroy Seoul.) We're going to war because conservatives will be happy only when they have a John Wayne ending to Desert Storm and make U.S. foreign policy less about realpolitik and more about muscularity and morality. We're going to war because we're a nation with a short attention span; we want to strike back at some enemy, and it is too hard to find Osama. (The Brits now say they and the U.S. knew Al Qaeda was working on a dirty bomb even before 9/11.) No one will miss Saddam. But as the administration inflates Iraq, it should not deflate other threats: North Korea, Al Qaeda, the deficit, the freaked economy and the woeful failure to secure the ports, skies and borders of America from attack. After Mr. Bush defenestrates Saddam and detangles Iraq's tribal chaos, Kim Jong Il and his six-pack of nukes will still be craving the American president's attention. nytimes.com