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To: papertyger

We are seen as Israel's enablers in the Arab world, and to a large extent that is not an incorrect view.


31 posted on 02/11/2005 6:57:23 PM PST by Hoplite
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To: Hoplite
and to a large extent that is not an incorrect view.

Quite true, but the cause is the same cause that brought this author to his erroneous conclusions in both cases of error.

36 posted on 02/11/2005 7:11:47 PM PST by Cold Heat (What are fears but voices awry?Whispering harm where harm is not and deluding the unwary. Wordsworth)
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To: Hoplite
We are seen as Israel's enablers in the Arab world, and to a large extent that is not an incorrect view.

The "arab world" has any number of complaints, grievances, and accusations levelled at the west in general, and America in particular. I see no reason to give this one any more credibility than the others. One might just as well claim it is adverse to our national interest to ignore a hypothetical complaint on the part of the French posing our poor relations with them are due to chummy relations with the British.

Furthermore, if the foreign policy of the old Soviet Union were any indicator, it would seem the number and obscurity of grievances in the "arab world" grows in direct proportion to how much credit those grievances are given. After all, they were much more instrumental to the creation of the state of Israel than we were, yet they seemed to suffer no appreciable arab animosity for it.

55 posted on 02/12/2005 10:58:39 AM PST by papertyger (If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough.)
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