Posted on 10/07/2001 3:57:41 PM PDT by ouroboros
Promote? Sure, but at the point of a gun? Is that really promotion or is it enforcement? What founding document makes this REPUBLIC the world's policeman, anyway.
Democracy is not necessarily the best government for every people on the planet at every moment in time. We have no mandate or interest in shaping the world in our image. We should set an example, not policy, for other countries to follow.
One could also describe Israel as a "nationalist socialist" state. Of course, I would never do that ;)
Actually most Israelis are from Jews who fled Arab lands.
Nice try.
Yes, it would be a mistake to link arms with Israel and go into Afghanistan. But Bush isn't doing that.
It would be an even worse mistake to repudiate Israel and kowtow to Palestinian terrorists. It would be read as a sign of cowardice and lack of will all over the Arab world, just as Israel's ignominious retreat from Southern Lebanon under its previous government placated no one, but only encouraged the Palestinians to strike harder.
Bush should keep on message. Israel has very little to do with this attack, despite the talking heads. America was the object of Bin Laden's attack. Our response has nothing to do with Israel one way or the other. Rather, as Bush has said, we will pursue our enemies until we have defeated them, by simple right of self-defense.
Well, I don't think he is saying that is what we are doing. He is merely warning against it.
Raimondo: "Our argument against that kind of war is simple: it is not in America’s interest to take on the entire Muslim world. That the Bush administration agrees with this perspective is underscored by the Powellian strategy of building a broad coalition including Arab countries....For once, America is fighting a defensive war, a just war – at least, so far. But it is an almost effortless transition from a just war to a war of conquest, so that most never notice when that point has been passed and there’s no turning back."
Raimondo is stating his preference that, as the war progresses, we continue to follow the lead of Gen. Powell and the President rather than Wolfowitz, Perle, etc. who are clamoring for a much wider conflict that could ignite WWIII.
Maybe you would like the USA government to give parts of our nation to Mexico, and the rest to various Indian tribes, where they can proove that they really ARE Indians. Then , let's make England give their land back to ... ? Hmmmmmmmm ... the Normans ? No, the were French and invaded. Oopps ... but the Normans were really Germans. Oh, and before that ? Well okay, wha about the Angles ? Oh dear, another invader and Germanic. The Saxons ? See the Normans and the Angles. Oh dear, oh dear. Your proposition is even more ridiculous, than mine.
How about we fid the Cannanites, and give them back ALL the territory covered by Israel. Oh gee........the Hebrews killed and / or intermarried with them. Sooooo, I guess that Israel REALLY does belong to those modern day Israelis. So there !
Can you provide a map of Palestine?
Question: Name the four least credible sources of how to deal with anti-American attackers and their sympathizers.
By the way, I don't appreciate being called an anti-semite simply because I refuse to wolf down pro-Israeli propaganda lock stock in barrel. You're not going to get a true picture of events unfolding in Palestine from the mainstream media.
Incidentally, you've violated the rules regarding "no personal attacks" by trotting out your virulent anti-semitic charge. It's a cheap shot that is a favorite tactic of leftwing extremists and, apparently, some Freepers.
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