Letters to the Editor
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I'm not going to talk about Zionism
Or the Holocaust, or Jews, or anything like that. What we need to do is to be even-handed in that region. For far too many years, US foreign policy has allowed or encouraged Israel's preemptive wars, and see what happens? We do one for ourself. How has that Iraq business, our "three-week" war, played out, anyway? We have pushed other regimes around as if they were irrelevant, and laid our thumb on the scales over and over. See what it gets you? We've had the wonderful experience of Iran's blowback, and Afghanistan's, and Islamic revolts replacing the left nationalism of Nasser with al-Qaeda. The answer really isn't aggressive war, but neutral standards of human rights which we apply to all nations. The worst danger we have is turning into a decadent, belligerent empire. We're a republic.