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REALLY? IT'S WRITTEN OVER THERE AND WHAT, FAXED HERE?
Nicholas von Hoffman in the New York Observer:
Do the Democrats have the stuffing to propose a different approach to Iran? What about no atomic weapons for Iran and none for Pakistan or Israel, and everybody submits to a full inspection regimen? ...
Then there is Israel. Can the Democratic Party contemplate a policy which is not written in Tel Aviv? With the death of Yasir Arafat, we have come to some kind of a juncture. Does the United States go along with the Israelis’ intention to back the clump of 70-year-old men that Arafat left behind as they go through the motions of one of those democratic elections which isn’t democratic, then announce that these old guys have legitimacy and make them sign a deal that will be repudiated by time and the Palestinians?
Maybe it's just me, but I heard an odd echo of:
Cui Bono? For whose benefit these endless wars in a region that holds nothing vital to America save oil, which the Arabs must sell us to survive? Who would benefit from a war of civilizations between the West and Islam?
Answer: one nation, one leader, one party. Israel, Sharon, Likud.
— Pat Buchanan, March 24, 2003.
[Posted 12/07 02:46 PM]
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