At 03:59 PM 2/27/2003 +0000 Robert J. Chassell wrote:
>Israel should support the creation of a viable, peaceful, and
>democratic Palestinian state.
Unfortuantely, I think that peaceful and democratic are for more difficult
to achieve than viable at this point - oddly enough. Israel can give
viability. It is up to the Palestinians to choose peaceful and democratic.
>Arab governments should support the creation of a viable, peaceful,
>and democratic Palestinian state.
>The Kurds in Iraq should not be permitted to create an independent and
>viable Kurdish state, but should remain within Iraq.
I reluctantly agree. Althoug i am sympathetic to the Kurdish cause, it is
simply too damaging to the interests of the free world to be seen as
carving up Iraq and giving its territory to non-Arabs.
>Israel should end settlement activity in the occupied territories.
Israel should make a unilateral guesture of dismantling a few of the most
non-viable settlements. Ending all settlement activity unilaterally,
however, would reward terrrorism too much to be acceptable.
>Arab governments should oppose terrorism.
Any Arab that fails to do this is signing its own death warrant, courtesy
of the USA.
>Arab governments should state clearly they will live in peace with
>Israel.
>Arab governments should work towards greater political participation.
Agreed.
> An alternative is that an single hegemonic power act as it likes
> to stop what it claims is the spread of chemical, biological, or
> nuclear weapons.
I agree with this one. There are simply not enough free democracies in
the world to ensure control of these organizations by free democracies.
The US should lead a coaltion of the willing to prevent the absolute worse
rogue states from developing these weapons.
>The Iraqi goverment should follow the resolutions of the the United
>Nations and fully disarm.
>
>Iraqi oil resources should be used for the benefit of the Iraqi
>people.
>
>Non-Iraqis should provide medicine for Iraqi sick.
>
>Non-Iraqis should ensure that Iraq's 55,000 food distribution sites,
>operating under the Oil For Food program, are stocked and open.
>
>The Iraqi goverment should not make a payment to the families of
>suicide bombers/martyrs that is 15 times the per capta income of the
>region if one of the families sons or daughters successfully commits
>suicide in a bombing.
>
>Families, class members, and co-religionists of people killed in Iraq
>should not be permitted to gain revenge against murderers.
The last ones are no-brainers, IMHO.
JDG
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