"Incredible! The very same people who argue against an “idealistic” foreign policy vis a vis Iran, Syria, Iraq (under Saddam) and North Korea, argue against a “realistic” foreign policy against Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, India." There's no inconsistency here. Nobody on the left is calling for the United States to impose economic sanctions, bomb, or invade Pakistan or Saudi Arabia, as we have done and/or may do with Iraq, Iran, and Syria Placing diploamatic pressure on our allies to hold democratic elections is not the same as forcibly overthrowing them.
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Jay Cline, "So, which is it? Is the Bush Adminstrations foreign policy strategy wrong because it has priotized pragmatism (in Pakistan) or because it has prioritized ideology (in Iraq)? Seems to me if Lakshmi Chaudhry’s criticism is valid, it is just as strong of an indictment of the criticism, demonstrating a disconnect between Lakshmi Chaudhry’s moral and ideological rhetoric and its underlying goals. " I think you are misreading the article. Lakshsmi Chaudhry's point is not that Bush has a double standard on Pakistan, when in fact she says that criticism misses the point. Rather, her argument is that the example …
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If Zionists were Christians, Buddhists, or Zorastrians, Palestinian opposition to Zionist would be exactly the same. Palestinians opposed Zionism not becase it was Jewish, but because it was a colonialist movement that destroyed their homeland. “When we say that the Arabs are the aggressors and we defend ourselves -- that is only half the truth. As regards our security and life we defend ourselves. . . . But the fighting is only one aspect of the conflict, which is in its essence a political one. And politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves.” — David Ben-Gurion, 1938 ". . …
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"Both Hamas and the PLO still call for the elimination of Israel, not a two-state solution" For the record, the PLO has supported a 2-state solution since 1988. Even with Hamas, it's not contradictory to say that all of land between the Meditterean and Jordan belongs to Palestine (which, given that Palestine was overwhelmingly Arab before Israel's ethnic cleansings from 1947-1949, is not an irrational ciam), but, at the same time, for the sake of pragamatism, you can accept a final resolution that would result in a Palestinian state based on the pre-1967 boundaries, as Palestinian Prime Minister Ismaill Haniya has …
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Wolf, why do you take Scorp's posts seriously? Scorp's rants about Soviet communism, the Iraqi WMD's, liberal media bias, and leftist academics are completely irrelevant to Barbara Ehrenreich's book. If he wants to engage in that kind of ranting, fine, there's always Free Republic, but not on this website.
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