Senate passes free trade agreement with Jordan { ARE THEY NUTS}

http://www.nj.com/ ^ | 9/24/01 5:39 PM | By JIM ABRAMS

[freedomnews]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a timely gesture to a key Middle East friend, the Senate on Monday approved an agreement that effectively removes all trade barriers with Jordan.

The measure, already passed by the House, implements an agreement reached between the Clinton administration and Jordan last fall. The Bush administration strongly supports it.

[freedomnews]

go read about open port and open sky

just maybe that will change you

[freedomnews]

If we have to buy our friends and allies, we are toast!!

that what we have been doing

Bill Clinton and now BUSH

[freedomnews]

If we have to buy our friends and allies, we are toast!!

with America jobs!!!

[jmp702]

These extreme groups (condemned by most peaceful Muslims) want to force America out of the Middle East

I thought that was your point (and mine to a degree), the U.S. ultimately out of area.

[elfman2]

Good news! One would have to be ignorant to be against this.

[SmartBlonde]

This young King is doing exactly as President Bush asked: you're with us or you're with the terrorists. When you're WITH us, you get goodies (carrots). When you're AGAINST us, you get bombed (sticks).

King Abdullah has been on television quite a bit. He's very articulate, British educated, his wife is Palestinian - this is not an easy decision for him to make.

Jordan and Israel have been suffering from a severe drought. They are sharing a water supply - the key word is SHARING. A friend of our friend ...

[BrucefromMtVernon]

I happen to believe that free traders are NUTS! There is nothing "free" about "free trade". It has nothing to do with freedom! The American System of Political Economy as originally put into practice by Alexander Hamilton and others is ardently protectionist and makes use of tariffs as a means of raising revenues for the U.S. Government. Down with Adam Smith! Down with John Locke!

[Dale 1]

If nobody wants them, then kill them all.

Humm!!!

[aruanan]

No, they're not nuts. Jordan is one of the least wacko countries in the region.

[VA Advogado]

And just what right do you Free Trade Glo-Baloneyists have to sacrifice U.S. National Sovereignty?

I refuse to pay twice as much for my needs and wants so you can have 2 hour lunches and 5 coffee breaks a day.

[aruanan]

Jordan is populated primarily by Palestinians

And the "Palestinians" in Jordan have been giant pains in the butt to the Hashemite Kingdom. A more accurate definition of "Palestinians" would be "the unassimilable, anarchist, internecine Arab tribes of the region lying between more or less real nations before 1948." The greatest stability and economic prosperity they've ever known has come as a result of the establishment of Israel. Their reputation was such in the surrounding Arab/Muslim nations that after the Arab League encouraged (read coerced) them to leave the new state of Israel, they refused to assimilate them into their own nations and kept them confined to refugee camps, even though there was great need for people following the exodus (often forced and accompanied by massive confiscation of capital) of even larger numbers of Middle Eastern Jews from these same countries during the same period.

[Aedammair]

I'm not willing to grant you the authority of indoctrination; thanks just the same though!!!!!!!

[Aedammair]

Good one!!! You're as erudite as Jerry fuc@ing Falwell. The objective is to move to the right of the bellcurve Poindexter, not the left!

[mafree]

Is "Open Port, Open Sky" a book or an article? Can you please point me to it? Thanks.

[Selara]

It really came to a head for me with the Congressional treatment of Gary Condit. Since 9/11, I am now sure of it. Congress has to be the weakest link in our elected government.

[CIBvet]

So why don't you give us an example of union workers receiving paid, " ... 2 hour lunches and 5 coffee breaks a day."

[FReethesheeples]

This is a good move.

[rboatman]

I don't pretend to know all the ramifications of the FTA with Jordan. But I do know that Jordan has been a friend for many years of the USA. I once spoke to the late King on amateur radio and he was a real "regular guy" just enjoying his hobby. The late King did "kick the butt" of the Palis and thus gained the respect of many in the Arab world as well as the western world. Circumstances dictated that Jordan had to walk a tightrope between the western world and the the traditional Islamic world. Under King Hussain, they did that very well while maintaining an informal relationship with Israel and the west. The Middle East would be in much better shape if all the Islamic states had followed Jordans' lead.

My major disappointment with Jordan was in the Gulf War when Jordan allowed itself to be influenced by pro-Iraq views to the extent of adopting a somewhat sympathetic (to Iraq) neutrality.

I hope the present King is as successful and as wise as his father. We, in the US, should support such wisdom.

[tbeatty]

Jordan is populated primarily by Palestinians.

THat's surprising since when Jordan controlled the west bank (1948 - 1967), Palestinians used the same terrorist attacks against Jordan that they are using against Israel. They considered Palestine under occupation when Jordan occupied it (imagine that, an Arab country didn't give them their "homeland" either, hmmmm). They are Arab and Muslim but I didn't think they were Palestinian.