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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 (12295)	2/6/2006 3:54:50 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32591

What they say and do can be two different things. If they are as nuts as they sound, my speculations on politics in the area mean nothing. In the interim, Israel should continue the sharon policy of separating the two peoples while at the same time responding with overwhelming force to any renewed terrorism. What about teaching iran a lesson using hizbollah rather than attacking iran proper to take out nuclear facilities? The israelis can create and control the border war and its fallout, but cannot know what follows an attack on iran, both in terms of worldwide terror and stupid ayotollah activities. Israel owes the US something here too and something special for the bush administration and i dont think bush wants the preemptive attack to come from israel just yet.

To: Scoobah who wrote (12295)	2/6/2006 5:28:56 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32591

Now here is a real bright move by a moslum country. European drugs over cartoons 02.06.2006, 03:43 AM forbes.com MULTAN, Pakistan (AFX) - The Pakistan Medical Association has vowed not to prescribe medicines from firms based in some European countries where controversial cartoons portraying the Prophet Mohammed were published, said Shahid Rao, the body's general secretary for Punjab province. The association will boycott drugs from Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, Germany and France to protest the 'blasphemous' drawings, Rao said. 'We have taken a unanimous decision and it will be immediately implemented in Pakistan,' Rao told AFP. 'Doctors in the country are very motivated on this issue,' he said. 'We would use alternate medicines in future till a public apology comes from these countries.' Pharmacists have also vowed not to sell such medicines, Rao said. The association is advising patients against using medicines from the offending countries if they are mistakenly prescribed by doctors, he added. The recent republication of the cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed, which first appeared in a Danish newspaper in September, has sparked angry protests and attacks against Western interests in parts of the Muslim world. Many Muslim countries, institutions and organizations have called for a boycott of products from countries where the media have carried the caricatures. Rallies condemning the cartoons have been held almost daily in Pakistan. Hundreds of traders in the central city of Multan burned the Danish, French and German flags on Sunday. On Saturday, Pakistan's foreign ministry summoned the ambassadors of Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Holland, Hungary, Norway and the Czech Republic to lodge protests. It is not immediately clear whether the Pakistan Medical Association is planning to boycott medicines from any of the other European nations that published the cartoons.