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Originally posted by XXXManager@Sep 25 2003, 07:54 PM
PD.
For you to claim that a policy is the worst you should offer a better one.
But for someone else to prove your claim is wrong, he/she just have to point out a worse one. Just one.
So lets take any.
Any policy until now that the US had only kept the Middle east in his favorable terrorist hive status.
Clinton's policy of embracing Arafat making him a "legitimate '''elected''' leader", staying out of things that are "not his business" like the dark regimes in the middleeast and other places around the world didn't help you avoid the 9/11. Afaik it only made it possible.
If you suggest keep staying away and wait for that "side of the world" to start loving you, force the creation of a palestinian state with no law or order in, ran by a terrorist leader (which will only turn into another black country who hates the US for being a western democracy) and support international terrorism, weakening the US industry and big companies (to create a more 'fair' environment [not that I don't think it is these days though]), allow everyone around the world to have his nuclear enabled dictatorship...
What other suggestions you might have? Who's policy did you like better?
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First of all, you are attempting to pull my words out of context. What I said in response to some mindless drivel posted by Mike was "
it is possible to believe that the policies of the Bush Administration represents the worst possible mistakes in foreign policy since Vietnam and still not want Saddam back in power." Mike likes to wrap himself up in the flag as if it is a proprietary possession, and I tend to thump him about it - it's part of my crude public-school upbringing.
You are assuming that I believe it - and your assumption is wrong. I think it is way too early to tell WHAT THE HELL GW has accomplished, and what the fallout from those "accomplishments" might be. It is not the course of action I would have taken. I personally would have concentrated more on finishing the job in Afghanistan before taking on another nationbuilding project.
I'm not suprised that this turned immediately into an attack on the Palestinians ... it's what you do. The problem with much of your tirade about President Clinton is that there are still those in your country who say the same about Carter and the negotiations with Sadat.