[rollei_list] Re: OT: Miscellany
- From: tyco@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:03:26 +0300
My suggestion is that you leave politics alone and stick with what you appear
to understand
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From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 0:26 am
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: OT: Miscellany
> At 04:53 PM 9/10/2007, eroustom@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >Wow, and I bet we listen to the same radio, and read the same
> papers - LOL!
> >I wasn't talking about the pols... I did say "half a brain", I meant
> >"At least half a brain."
>
> Well, you do have a way with words!
>
> I doubt that we listen to the same radio stations
> or read the same newspapers. But I am
> politically involved and do know what was going
> on in the ramp-up to the Iraq War. In the
> political spectrum, George H W Bush and George W
> Bush are moderate leftists who accept an
> interventionist role for government -- George H W
> Bush lost in 1992 primarily because the
> Republican rank-and-file, those little old ladies
> in Tennis Shoes who worked the polls for the GOP,
> stayed home after he signed the Family Leave Act and the like.
>
> The core of Republican Party leadership strongly
> advised against intervention in either
> Afghanistan or Iraq as no vital US national
> interest was at play. The advice of most of
> these folks was to start a dialogue in the Middle
> East which included a US distancing of its policy
> from a blind support of Israel. Bush was
> unwilling to do this, and so we ended up with a
> war unwinnable unless we are willing to blindly
> kill thousands of civilians who may or may not be
> involved in any hostile activities. The US
> rather stupidly bought into the Nuremburg
> Doctrine which includes a ban on "collective
> guilt" and thus forbids mass retaliation against
> the populace of recalcitrant territories.
>
> My take? Dump Israel. The Arabs loved the US in
> 1945. Let's get back there again. Let's work
> for energy independence: adopt a flat $5 a
> gallon tax on imported gasoline. Open up
> ANWR. (No, I do not advocate shooting Green
> folks, but I would certainly ignore them on this
> point.) Open up all of the Gulf of Mexico and
> Atlantic Littoral to gas and oil exploitation
> with appropriate safeguards. Open up shale oil
> deposits -- I would exempt oil so derived from
> that $5 a gallon tax, of course, as it is
> internally generated. Once we have energy
> independence, then we can ignore the Middle East
> and can be a friend to everyone.
>
> Marc
>
>
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
>
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