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

To: PROLIFE who wrote (485223)	11/2/2003 12:27:54 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Respond to of 769670

You can't stick to the elements of the debate, so you go on and on about the so called hate sites, and how they support terror. Terrorism will not be stopped until the root cause is addressed. It cannot be stopped by adding another war in the middle east. In fact it appears that the war in Iraq has fanned the flames of terror. Terror will continue as long as the Palestinians are forced to live in the shadow of Israel. Now a great wall is being constructed to further divide this region. Poverty and ruin is all these people know. You want to end terror in Israel? Do you think that bulldozing another tenement will do that? Terror will continue as long as people are desperate for justice. How else can they battle a giant like Israel or the US? Will you deny that the US has a part in creating the desperation in the middle east? The US has given billions to Israel. How does this play in the Arab countries? If you are going to give billions to Israel, and you do not also do everything in your power to create the peace in the middle east, how will this be perceived in the middle east? It is the very military support, and military interventions into the middle east which has caused the rise in terror and in terrorism. By supporting dictators such as Saddam and the Shah of Iran, these nearsighted and uneven handed policies have created the terrorists. Look, this country fought a battle for independence over a 3 penny tax increase on the price of tea. Do you not think that others when oppressed will not lash out at the oppressor? Do you not see how the US policies have enraged the Arab peoples, and the world too? Is the best way to solve this problem by sending in troops to fight a guerilla war? Or would we be better served by a more even handed policy with regard to the middle east? Our foreign policy has been a mess for decades. Then we find ourselves continuing to follow up bad policies with more bad policy. It compounds our injury at every turn. We need to develop an energy plan that gets us off the middle eastern oil teat. That should be job 1. Second we need to begin to work with the Palestinian and Israel governments to finish the peace process so that children can grow up without war. And thirdly, we need to re-assess how we support governments in the world. We have to stop giving aid to dictators and war lords. Our foreign aid and development of trade with other countries should be predicated by, and proportional to the development of democratic institutions, not political expediency. Orca