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To: vbmoneyspender
It's not baseless. Novak is not a friend of Israel, while he is very sympathetic to the Arab regimes in the region. That's pretty well known. In fact, if you asked Novak, I am pretty sure he would agree and tell you he is an Arabist.

So I guess you stand alongside the others pissing on the notion of a neutral, free republic that Washington warned us to keep. What has America gained, aside from billions of tax dollars sent overseas, and thousands of dead, for dismissing Washington's advice and politically embroiling ourselves with Israel and the Middle East?

117 posted on 05/31/2004 2:52:38 PM PDT by Gunslingr3
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To: Gunslingr3
You've just changed the argument. You previously said it was a slander to call Novak an Arabist. Now you are saying that we provide too much aid to Israel. Whether or not that is the case, I take it you now agree that it is not a slander to call Novak an Arabist?

Aside from that, the whole point of us walling ourselves inside the United States is ridiculous. What's more, the founding fathers didn't believe that nonsense either. That's why the Monroe Doctrine was put into effect after the British invaded the United States and burned Washington D.C. down to the ground in the War of 1812. After that happened, our founding fathers made a conscious decision that our basic war strategy from thence forward would be to never fight a war again on American soil. As a result, the Monroe Doctrine was put into effect which warned all foreign powers not to take any hostile actions in the Western Hemisphere. The Monroe Doctrine didn't say don't invade us or do anything that might specifically result in an invasion of our land. Rather, the Monroe Doctrine said don't do anything anywhere in either South or North American that we might interpret as a hostile action.

As a result, this idea that there was once some magical time in our past when we ignored threats from foreign powers until they actually reached our shores is a fantasy. And what's more -- it is a dangerous fantasy.

126 posted on 05/31/2004 3:09:19 PM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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