From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Feb 24 2003 - 13:18:09 MST
--- Ramez Naam <mez@apexnano.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: Lee Corbin [mailto:lcorbin@tsoft.com]
> > Robert wrote
> > > It seems (to me) that the U.S. bought off a resolution to the
> 1967
>
> > > and/or Yom Kippur wars and has been paying ever since.
>
> > Isn't that about the size of it? Ol' Jimmy Carter just got
> > us to *pay* them not to fight each other. Great for him,
> > and great for them. Stupid for us.
>
> I have no problem with the US paying to make the world a better
> place.
> I just think our money has been mis-spent, because we haven't focused
> on the most important results: democracy, free speech, the rule of
> law, etc...
With regards to the post-cold war world, I agree with you, though much
of the problems in the world today are a matter of cleaning up the
messes ignored during or created during the cold war.
I might also add that, despite the positive view of the Iranian people
protrayed in an article posted today, it is Iran's government which
continues to be the biggest supporter of Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad.
The IJ fellow busted this past week in Florida's primary function it
seems was to keep track of where Iran's money was going in the IJ
organization. Iran purports to be a functioning democracy with a
theocratic control structure, and it continues to fund terrorism.
When the US is dealing with just one thug per arab nation, it is far
easier to control where the money goes than when you have to deal with
a democracy that may decide to do other things, especially if it has
its own revinue sources.
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Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
- Gen. John Stark
"Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
"Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid
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