thought experiment
Forrest Gunter
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Fri, 29 Aug 2003 17:40:55 -0500
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<DIV></DIV>>From: Michael Eisenstadt <MICHAELE@ANDO.PAIR.COM>
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<DIV></DIV>>If i were the newly elected president in 2004
<DIV></DIV>>what would my immediate foreign policy moves be?
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>Iraq
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>Afghanistan
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>North Korea
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<DIV></DIV>>Israel
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<DIV></DIV>>would be the 4 big foreign policy issues.
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>in Afghanistan, stay the course, help hunt down
<DIV></DIV>>tough ass Taliban in the mountains, continue
<DIV></DIV>>current Bush policy
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>North Korea, steady as it goes, continue current
<DIV></DIV>>Bush policy
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>Israel, either commit to trying to force UN presence
<DIV></DIV>>between Israel & Palestinians
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>OR
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>continue to subsidize Israel practicing a
<DIV></DIV>>kind of benign neglect
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>Ernest Hemingway's morality theory (in my opinion
<DIV></DIV>>the best moral rule, better even than highminded
<DIV></DIV>>Kantian morality) is that when confronted by a
<DIV></DIV>>moral decision tree, the harder thing to do is
<DIV></DIV>>the correct one.
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>this argues for United Nationsizing the
<DIV></DIV>>Israel/Palestinian confrontation despite
<DIV></DIV>>Israeli govenment's predictable rejection
<DIV></DIV>>of UN presence.
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>as the Israelis hold the ground militarily, they
<DIV></DIV>>would NOT permit UN into the area by force.
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>so the good new Dem president would be forced by
<DIV></DIV>>these constraints to continue US's longterm policy
<DIV></DIV>>of subsidizing Israelis which sucks.
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>Iraq - that's the biggest of the big foreign
<DIV></DIV>>policy issues.
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>how does the new president undo the Iraq debacle?
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>first by stating the it was a mad adventure based
<DIV></DIV>>on lies and that he and most Americans now accepted
<DIV></DIV>>this.
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>if US departs all of a sudden, the country will
<DIV></DIV>>go into instant civil war and Iraq will wind up
<DIV></DIV>>with a new strong man.
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>so it should be UnitedNationsized as it was
<DIV></DIV>>when the inspectors were there before US
<DIV></DIV>>invaded the country. if the UN can keep the
<DIV></DIV>>peace between Serbs, Croats and other warriors,
<DIV></DIV>>they should be able to do it between Kurds,
<DIV></DIV>>Sunni, Shia and sundry.
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<DIV></DIV>>Michel N.
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<DIV>Me no getty. Michael <EM>N </EM>??????????????????????? Is that Baal's pen name ?????????????
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