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Sure you are. Why was Arafat alive when Powell got there? Hell I have never seen a slower response to a "crisis" than Powells slow boat to Israel tour. Look, you don't like this administration so therefore this is a convenient whipping boy issue. I am asking why Israel will not act like every other sovereign nation in the world and do what it takes to survive. I am sick of blaming the United States for "negotiating" with a person that due to Sharon's lack of will, is still around. If Sharon was content with keeping Arafat in his room then why waste any more time on this pain in the ass situation. This country has more important things to do.

Well actually I think we have been in need of a Man Of Word POTUS for 12 years. Yes on Foreign Policy Ronnie was the last one who meant what he said and the world knew it. Bush is still thanks largely to his dad's wrong is going to have a rough road ahead to get that word and standing restored. Dealing with a terrorist via the state department is not helping matters. We are too caught up in entanglements with other nations dictating what we will and will not do in our own conflicts. Saudi Arabia is top on that list.

My point was the United States does not have to negotiate with this mad man. We have caved to Arabic and U.N. pressure once again. Arafat is not a leader he is a terrorist. He BTW is a sponsor of terrorism against our nation as well who is to stop us from taking him out? Will it make Israel mad? No I doubt that. What about Saudi Arabia though? You bet it would. That is why we go running each time OLD UGLY starts his stuff with Israel and talk to him.

What part of this is so hard for those in Washington to understand? Good grief we have let a Mad Man of Bagdad keep us at bay since the Gulf War. Don't you think it's time to end that? It think it was a huge mistake to leave him in power. Powell thought it was a mistake to go there at all. Israel is dealing with several factions of the PLO. Arafat is one of many.

My point was the United States does not have to negotiate with this mad man. We have caved to Arabic and U.N. pressure once again. Arafat is not a leader he is a terrorist. He BTW is a sponsor of terrorism against our nation as well who is to stop us from taking him out? Will it make Israel mad? No I doubt that. What about Saudi Arabia though? You bet it would. That is why we go running each time OLD UGLY starts his stuff with Israel and talk to him.

The fact is, that we have to deal with him because Isreal will not "deal" with him. Ronald Reagan had to deal with him also. So get off the Reagan "myth".

A short follow-up to your statement about Reagan

After the Beirut debacle, the U.S. tried to lower its public profile in the Middle East, even going so far as to support opening a dialogue with PLO leader Yasir Arafat. In return, the Arafat recognized Israel's right to exist and renounced terrorism.

Elsewhere in the Middle East the U.S. confronted Libya. This radical Islamic state ruled by strongman Muammar Qaddafi had used its oil revenues to bankroll terrorists in Europe and the Middle East. On April 15, 1986, having concluded that Libya had supported and financed the bombing of a nightclub in Berlin frequented by GIs, Reagan ordered the bombing of five targets in Libya, including the presidential palace. Although Qaddafi survived the raid, his daughter was killed in the bombing along with thirty-seven other civilians. For several years thereafter Qaddafi desisted from terrorist acts against the United States.