X-Message-Number: 19345 References: <> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 13:21:17 +0200 From: David Stodolsky <> Subject: Re: Americans "Left Behind" intellectually At 25 Jun 2002 08:13:58 -0700, Mark Plus wrote: >I do hope this sort of cultural obsession fades in a few years. I'm >especially worried that such beliefs might impair the judgment of key >figures in the U.S. government when it comes to policy and war-making in the >Middle East. If you heard the GWB speech, then you know that you don't have a worry anymore, you have a fact. In Isreal, one Sharon supporter commented that while he was listening to the speech, he was thinking, "OK, this is the carrot, now what is going to be the stick?" Well, the stick never came. No reguirements on Isreal, at all. The speech was basically telling the Palistinians that they have to democratically select a knew leader, as long as it's one that is acceptable to the Bush Regime. Sounds like Afganistan, and a few other places recently... Since it is the declared policy of the Bush Regime to get rid of the current leader of Irag, and there is no way that this is going to be supported by the Arab states, while the Palistinians are being tortured and killed (with full support of the Bush Regime), you can only wonder whether there is any judgement being exercised by the key figures in the U.S. government at all. dss -- David S. Stodolsky, PhD PGP: 0x35490763 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19345