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OT The Conservative Brain
Mark Browne wrote:
snip I'm afraid it is going to take a significantly larger number of body bags to force the Bush Administration to come to some sort of sense. Today's news reports were full of features about ultra-conservative mullahs from Iran returning to Iraq to take up where they left before Saddam, to establish a theocracy in Iraq. Now *that* should be interesting. You really have to wonder how stupid Bush really is to go down the path he is following. He is creating a world in which those who oppose us are solidifying in ways never imagined in the "good" old days of the Kremlin. We're going to take a big hit from the terrorists, and when we do, it will be because of Bush. That has to be made crystal clear to Americans. Here is a news flash for you....we already did. Shall we place the blame for 9-11 then on the hands of BJ Clinton? While slick Willie has done his fair share of bad things, this is not one of them. Look for the president that was doing black bag ops to provide weapons to "friendly" fighters in the middle east. This is a big part of the blame. Every oil friendly politician who supported the House of Saud with weapons and military support without asking questions has a fair share of the blame. Support of Israel with no questions asked, and no conditions imposed, in return for our monetary and military support certainly did not help anything. These bad policies for most of two generations have brought the USA to the place it is now in the Arab street. There is no silver bullet that will fix the mess. It would seem that it may take as long to fix the mess as it did to make it in the first place. While there are many theories as to which policies, and what deals have precipitated much of the hatred and distrust by our Arab neighbors (Much of this seeming conflict of interest stems from our own churn in administrations every 4-8 years, with different agendas WRT the middle east), It is, as they say, water over the dam now. The big question is what do we do about it? Do we adopt a position of strength, and attempt to deal with threats? Or do we adopt a position of appeasement? Do we allow the threat of terrorism to sway political doctrines? Do we give in to the demands of a loose group of malcontents? What message does this send? Can we even fix it? When you have a growing segment of extreme Islam, who have declared that their purpose is to "cleanse" the globe of "infidels", how can we hope to strike up a middle ground? Dave |