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>From: "Lawrence DeBivort" <debivort@umd5.umd.edu>
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>Subject: RE: Bush's War on Terrorism
>Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:58:41 -0400
>
> > what's happening now without mentioning them. Funny, though, that
> > I didn't
> > hear any objections when I mentioned the wars between the English and
>the
> > Irish. Or the Serbs and the Croats. Or the Serbs and the
> > Kosovars. Why
> > is that, do you think?
>
>Because that we agree on, or don't care about.
>
>
I care about the Troubles in N. Ireland. There's a lot of people up there
who could probably live tolerbly well with each other and let the
Loyalist/Republican clash fade away. But then you've got the UVF and all
them other Loyalist Ulster folks and you've got the IRA, who can't let it
pass.
A parallel to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict might be strained, excpet at
least for the hopeful part about the middle grounders (Jewish and
Arab/Muslim) who would like to reach out to eachother and let their troubles
pass.
I watched "Politically Incorrect" with Bill Maher last night and have come
to the concusion that we in the US do have a deep set tendency to view that
conflict through the lenses of pro-Israeli sentiment. It's hard for us to
see the Palestinian POV. It seemed from some of Dubya's rhetoric and
Powell's stances that the US would have a more neutral or even-handed
approach. If we can't be neutral, this matter needs to rest solely with the
U.N. The US does NOT need to commit our forces to that region as
peacekeepers. I don't think we've got the necessary objectivity, plus I'm
for commitments more in line with the Weinberger doctrine.
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