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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JEB who wrote (372357)	3/17/2003 10:39:50 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Looking at the simple minded doing analysis. This long article online from Newsweeks is instructive of the simple minded or those out of touch with the meanings of connections. msnbc.com "Some make the argument that Europeans are now pacifists, living in a "postmodern paradise," shielded from threats and unable to imagine the need for military action. But then how to explain the sentiment in Turkey, a country that sits on the Iraqi border? A longtime ally, Turkey has fought with America in conflicts as distant as the Korean War, and supported every American military action since then. But opposition to the war now runs more than 90 percent there. Despite Washington's offers of billions of dollars in new assistance, the government cannot get parliamentary support to allow American troops to move into Iraq from Turkish bases. Or consider Australia, another crucial ally, and another country where a majority now opposes American policy. Or Ireland. Or India. In fact, while the United States has the backing of a dozen or so governments, it has the support of a majority of the people in only one country in the world, Israel. If that is not isolation, then the word has no meaning. " Turkey is in economic blah. It's muslim and they have this thing about not helping anyone against a muslim. Remember the just recent story of the FBI guy who would not tape a fellow muslim. This mindless no hurt a fellow muslim is clearly ingrained in that culture. Muslim fasco nationalism is currently popular in Turkey. This has nothing to do with American strength. It has to do with the fact that Turkey's economy is crap with little prospect for growth. There are always those who will find someone to blame to attempt to control the ignorant and the stupid. "But the administration is wrong if it believes that a successful war will make the world snap out of a deep and widening mistrust and resentment of American foreign policy. A war with Iraq, even if successful, might solve the Iraq problem. It doesn't solve the America problem. What worries people around the world above all else is living in a world shaped and dominated by one country--the United States. And they have come to be deeply suspicious and fearful of us." I do wonder that the presume to express the President has such a simple minded view. Fact, the jumping up and down will end after the war. And in that ignorance and fear caused all the whining in the first place, the ignorant will continue to fear us and they will be manipulated by those who use this to get into power. The dems in America under the hillary mentality are another perfect example of propaganda to destroy and conquer political enemies. This article go on and on and makes some good observations that seem to be followed with really dumb conclusions.