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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scoobah who wrote (8784)	2/16/2005 4:10:34 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

Re: The American administration indirectly joined French President Jacques Chirac's call for an international investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri... Well, as a matter of fact, the West no longer enjoys the exclusive of snuffing out unfriendly statesmen... Did France and the US call for an "international investigation" into the assassination of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba forty years ago? Salvador Allende? Iran's Mossadegh? Italy's Aldo Moro? All were remarkable, invaluable statesmen to their country, and all were wasted with Washington's blessing... Don't get me wrong though: I do not condone the assassination of PM Rafik Hariri --I merely put it in perspective, the perspective of European/American neo-/colonialism.... For decades, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine had to yield to both the French and the British, after the ebbing of the Ottoman empire. Hence the French and the Brits carved up the region, appointing their trustful satraps to rule over the locals... I guess times have changed: how can the West seriously ask for Syria to leave Lebanon when Israel is still denying the Palestinians a state? When the US is brutally occupying Iraq? Gus