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

To: michael97123 who wrote (12382)	2/7/2006 2:00:27 PM
From: Scoobah	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 32591

It would look like Desert Storm, but consisting entirely of US, British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, and ANY European country that wasnted a piece of the rebuilding effort; then, it is a set of strategically placed bases, fortresses if you will, which consist of Apache's, Abrams, F-16's, A 10's and the necessary Special Op's to make it all streamlined. Free elections then take place, and the rest would be garnered from the lessons currently being learned in Iraq; or did you think that we were there just for the bed sheeted women?

To: michael97123 who wrote (12382)	2/7/2006 2:07:18 PM
From: Scoobah	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32591

As Sharon sleeps, the US State Dept. slowly cooks Israel in the absence of Netanyahu: care for a little sprinkling of Kassam with your duplicity Sir? DEBKAfile reports: Washington backs Egyptian bid to sway Hamas leaders to accept a back-seat, wire-puller role in Palestinian rule and then extort Israeli assent February 7, 2006, 11:52 AM (GMT+02:00) Hamas’ first response was a threat by its supreme commander Jaabari Abu Obeida to end its informal ceasefire and resume full-scale suicide attacks on Israel. This was a bargaining maneuver after Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman put the deal to Hamas leaders, Khaled Mashaal from Damascus and Mahmoud a-Zahar from Gaza whom he received in Cairo Monday, Feb. 6. Also on Monday, US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice put in a telephone call to Israel’s acting prime minister Ehud Olmert to convey the impression that the Bush administration favored the deal. In Cairo, Suleiman held out the lure of the first Hamas audience with president Hosni Mubarak, if they proved cooperative. According to DEBKAfile’s political sources, Rice argued in favor of letting Hamas form a government headed by a neutral figure under their backroom control. Hamas would get minor portfolios like Labor or Social welfare, but use them to pull the levers of government. Mahmoud Abbas said he could pull this off but, as usual, asked for time - six months’ grace in this instance to restore the strength of his Fatah. He would then cook up a constitutional crisis and call a new election in which the restored Fatah would oust Hamas. Rice informed Olmert that Washington believes the Abu Mazen scenario can work because Hamas’ 74 legislative council seats are less than the two-thirds parliamentary majority needed to frustrate it. Israel was not asked for its consent. DEBKAfile’s analysts sum up the real objective of this US-Egyptian exercise as being to buy six months of calm - time for edging Israel into accepting the accomplished fact of a Hamas-backed Palestinian government. Abbas has not the slightest chance of rebuilding Fatah. The funds Israeli transfers to a Palestinian government formally headed by a non-Hamas figure will therefore be available to build up Hamas’ strength. The radical Islamic terror group will use the six months’ grace to establish its legitimacy in government and quietly pick up international acceptance without recognizing Israel or disarming – whether Israel likes it or not.

To: michael97123 who wrote (12382)	2/7/2006 4:34:50 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 32591

Michael. ...."Explain what he massive attack force would look like and how you would deal with 100 million arabs now under your rule."..... I know this was not posted to me but will give my 2 cents worth. I don't think the West can think in this manner yet but if there should come a time when the free world MUST at last confront the world of islam then I don't think there will be any invasion type forces. I think the West will have to use big bad bombs on radical islam nations with the message STOP what you are doing and CHANGE. And never thought I would be saying this but the Free world may just have to take some lessons from China with regards as to how to handle organized radical islam already established within the free world. A proper education is the solution but is about 1400 years to to late. I'm up in years now and closer to the end of my life than the beginning and I fear for the younger generations in the future if our elected leaders do not take a very firm stand NOW against radical islam.... IMO future generations will never ever enjoy the freedoms and good life that I enjoyed if the Free word settles for appeasement and wimping out against radical islam now.