Letters to the Editor
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McCain and Hamas
Clearly, McCain must have an inside line into Hamas' thinking.
Perhaps Mr. McCain would be so kind as to lend the Israelis his insight. I'm sure this will solve the crisis quickly.
I will make an equally valid prediction that, if elected, John McCain will cause sea levels to reverse course and drop.
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to quote Bill Maher...
Doesn't it seem like they're playing chess and we're playing checkers?
I mean, Hamas says something nice about Obama, suddenly Obama is the Hamas candidate, while the Hamas advisor snickers at us, wondering "did they really buy that? Really, it's that easy?"
I'll make it very simple...the enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend, and the friend of your enemy is not necessarily your enemy, especially when that enemy may be trying to fool you.
It's just frustrating that we might get four more years of this crap.
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Now *this* is a War Room posting
Thank you, Alex. Much improved.
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Preferrence for president
This is the same "Democrats are freinds of terrorists" card that Republicans played in 2004. With a freindly media, they will play this card again this year.
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Yet another instance of blowback
Why can't those Palestinians just do what they're told? You'd think by now someone would understand that when a foreign government meddles in your political affairs, it's for their own good. After all, it worked so well in Iran in '53...
And, didn't McCain mean al Qaeda? Aren't they all al Qaeda now?
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Good story, Koppelman!
Keep it up!
Stories such as this demonstrate the incompetence of the Bush Administration. Historically, the key problem for Palestinian leadership among Palestinian factions has been preventing civil war. The rivalry, the jockeying for position among groups like Hamas, is constant. We don't hear much about it in the US: we only hear about the one Bad Guy. We'll only be exposed to internecine rivalries when the Bad Guy We Know is challenged by a Bad Rival.
Prior to Bush Administration involvement, Hamas was set to tear itself apart, stressed by both internal disagreements and outside competition. Trying to provoke a "civil war" in this atmosphere ought to have been as difficult as promoting one in, say, Iraq. Leave it to the Bush Administration, who have demonstrated no competence in any area of government, to do what imperial powers have been trying to do for centuries in the Middle East: inspire age-old historic rivalries to join forces and unite. To quote the great philosopher B. Bunny, "What a bunch of maroons."
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Disgusting!!!
McCain has morphine completely into bush with that comment. That's right. Let's aggrevate or enemies, let's provoke them, let's heighten tensions. "Bring 'em on!"
Disgusting!!!!
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Sighhhhhh...
What this shows is the sad lack of a quality education within the United States. This line of thinking is so simple--Hamas says something positive about Obama, I don't like Hamas, so I don't like Obama.
However, an educated and critically thinking person will understand that the Palestinians have real issues that need to be addressed and adressed fairly so Hamas as well as Fatah would see McCain as a threat to finding a solution to their problems with Israel as they perceive them while Obama is someone who would represent a fresh opportunity to initiated change that could lead to some form of accord. The same could be said of Clinton by the way. Either candidate would seek to establish settling the Israeili/Palestinian issue in an intelligent manner as a priority.
Meanwhile, McCain and the right see it and will sell it as nothing but enemies and friends. And many in the electorate without the educational background to understand the issue and why it is vitality important to America's interest will acquiesce and agree that a vote for Obama/Clinton is a vote for terrorists.
This is why Democrats need to understand the electorate and the dynamics of the American polity and adjust the rhetoric accordingly.
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Let the sliming begin!
I'm only surprised it didn't start sooner.
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McCain? Who is he?
Two surprises here:
1. That Hamas has apparently never heard of John McCain, otherwise, I'm sure they would back his candidacy;
2. That John McCain has heard of Hamas.
Maybe there is still hope that he will sort out the Sunnis from the Shia before he goes completely gaga.
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Perhaps renowned simpleton (894th out of 899) and senescent senior from Arizona, Mr. John Sidney McCain III, aka Crazy Old Coot™ . . .
. . . could comment on the rumors circulating that he was brainwashed and mentally reprogrammed while staying at the Hanoi Hilton and that he is in fact a Manchurian Candidate who will turn the country over to Godless Communists if elected?
Then perhaps Senator Obama can publicly denounce the rumors that McCain was brainwashed and mentally reprogrammed while staying at the Hanoi Hilton and that he is in fact a Manchurian Candidate who will turn the country over to Godless Communists if elected by saying:
The rumors surrounding Sen. McCain's Manchurian candidacy are unsubstantiated, and I publicly denounce the allegations pending further proof.
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Intended consequences
It's become obvious that every action the Bush administration takes (whether its foreign policy, the econmomy, or the environment) results in the exact opposite effect of the stated intention. After seven years of this, it's impossible not to believe that the results are what they really intended, in the first place.
Keep things stirred up in the Middle East, and we have an excuse for another war. Ruin the economy, and more power is concentrated in the hands of fewer elite rich, denying the rest of us any opportunity to do anything except be worker drones for the rich. And the environmental results speak for themselves - "clear skies" results in more pollution; more money for the polluters. And so it goes.....
But "incompetent", they're not. They get exactly the results they want.
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Two rhetorical questions
(1) “But the secret plan backfired, resulting in a further setback for American foreign policy under Bush.”
Can these clowns do anything right?
(2) “a covert initiative. . . to provoke a Palestinian civil war.”
Has this administration done anything, I mean anything, good and honorable?
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"I will be Hamas' worst nightmare???"
Excuse me, but is McCain running for President of the US, or Israel? Are we having our foreign policy run by Israel (actually, the Likud Party)? Does he think we're going to actually militarily defeat Hamas, when Israel--you know, the guys who live next door--can't do it? Isn't he actually increasing Hamas' credibility by making them unbowed enemies of the big bad United States?
This isn't helping anybody. All parties in the region would be better off if we tried to back off the knee-jerk support of Israel, and gain a smidgen of objectivity.
Unfortunately, few among the American elites see it that way anymore, as seen by McCain's, and Clinton's, recent comments. It ain't gonna help our strategic position in the region any. As one poster mentioned above, they're playing chess, we're playing checkers.