Question

[Nonson]

Can the world hold together with a Bush or Gore presidency and a Barak performance of Dumb and Dumber in political matter? What did we ever do to deserve this fate? Peace

[Dr_Woland]

It's hard to tell, isn't it? Neither Gush nor Bore has committed themselves to anything at all binding, or even vague, on foreign policy issues. Bush's remarks on foreign policy so far seem to indicate a total disinterest in the topic - I am assuming that this can be interpreted as plans for an "isolationist" foreign policy built on "Son Of Star Wars" technology.

And Gore? Well, who knows? Maybe he'll continue the broad Clinton policies, although the chances of his election are looking slighter by the moment. I am not too impressed with those either, frankly, as I've noted in other threads here :-(

I'm not remotely qualified to advance any suggestions about what Barak's policies might turn into from here on in.

Dr W.

[Blair24]

yeah

[Nonson]

Barak is talking concession. Is this to signal that he's defeated both as a warrior and as a politician? Looks as though there is some easy pickings for Sharon, a hardliner, or some liberal wimp who seeks to appease the Israelis who have weak stomachs. Its been over 50 years and still the Zionists can't get their act together. Wont they ever realize that its their ideology that is the problem, and not the people? -THE DESTROYER-

[gene_parrish]

Hello Nonson,
In the middle east it seems that all the different fanatical religons are congretated and feed with hate to kill each other. Not a place to be!! I like to avoid people who dislike me but what would it be like to live next door to people who wish you were dead because of your religion?
I am prejeduced against the muslems because they are so warlike when their clergy work them into some mental frenzy.
I have seen it here when a preacher would talk about doctors killing babys and that someone should do something about it and sure enough someone did something about it.
Gene

[Dr_Woland]

trying to hold onto the "russia.com" relation to this, and playing devil's advocate here....

... what do we make of Russia's role in this? For the second* time in two years, Russia has appeared on the world scene as a mediator, attempting to bring a peace where others have failed.

Russia's credentials in this area are not without merit - as a country which has substantial jewish and muslim populations itself, it has a more neutral position than the USA, whose championship of Israeli policies even when they involved genocide has crept increasingly towards the hypocritical in nature.

Will we see NATO/USA once again try to sabotage Russian attempts at peace, as they did at Rambouillet, so that Washington can try to hang-on to the reins of world power, and promote its protege nations at the expense of human rights?

Dr W.


* the first time being Kosova, where NATO tore-up the peace agreement negotiated by Russia behind-the-scenes, and provoked the war which Madeleine Dumbass so badly wanted, and Clinton so badly needed.

[gene_parrish]

Dr W,
Your post leave me with a lot of different prospectives on the world situation but your voice is sometimes opposite of what I have heard all my life.
I think the albainans pushed the innocents to attack the armed government to make the world come to their aid and the same thing is happening in Israel.
How can you deal with such people who make so much trouble for their political gains? I am glad that there isn't a large muslim population with a policital agendia living near me.
It is true that we stray from the subject of russia. but, as a young man I used to hate the Russians but when we attacked Kosovo I wanted the Russians to play the protector of the weak. Now I look to the former war maker to be todays peace maker or equalizer. And we do need a equalizer.
Gene