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2002-05-20 Home Front

Madeleine hits `bipolar' foreign policy

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2002-05-20 06:30 pm|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The biggest thing that the US has allowed to happen in the past year in Israel/Palestine is to allow both parties to realize that there is a downside to not negotiating. Before 2001 the Palestinians obviously failed to realize that there is a "time for war and a time for peace". The last series of Israeli West Bank operations may, perhaps, have dispelled the false assumption that randomly killing Jews is something that can be done with impunity. Albright never realized that carrots taste better because of the lack of appeal of the stick option. But she and WJC never really were into sticks as policy options, unless the target of the stick was such isolated nutcases like Baby Doc Duvalier and Slobo Milosevich.

Posted by Tom Roberts 2002-05-21 06:35:41|| 2002-05-21 06:35:41|| Front Page Top

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