To: KC_for_Freedom
Look, the middle east is horribly unstable right now.
Moving the embassy right now doesn't make sense.
American civilians would be murdered. The middle east will become even more unstable. Large scale war, with an eye toward destroying Israel would probably occur.
Iran and Syria would be happy to jump in and help destroy Israel.
Waiting to move it until things are a bit more stable isn't giving in to the terrorists.
It makes good tactical sense to wait.
35 posted on
06/18/2004 9:42:10 AM PDT by
texasflower
(in the event of the rapture.......the Bush White House will be unmanned)
To: texasflower
It makes good tactical sense to wait. Perhaps we are agreed on this too. If Bush wants to wait until a more correct "tactical" time, he would be in the best position to know this. I have always thought that the time to move the embassy would involve the carrot and stick approach to Middle East negotiations. We will move the embassy in order to punish our enemy and reward our friends, but we can only move it once, so we wait till we get maximum momentum from the move. (Of course a campaign promise is important, and this president is fond of the experssion, "I mean what I say", so I would expect the move will be in his next term.)
43 posted on
06/18/2004 10:42:19 AM PDT by
KC_for_Freedom
(Sailing the highways of America, and loving it.)
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