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Quote by: Nono The Levant isn't in Europe's backyard LOL.
Bosnia is, and that was a perfectly shameful example of Europe failing to tend its backyard, until Clinton got fed up and did it for us.
As bishop says, the fact that Israel is armed to the teeth thanks to a blank cheque from the US puts the Levant squarely in the American's sphere of influence. (And the US armed forces are massively present a few hours drive from Israel -- in Iraq.)
Only the US can bring about a settlement of the Palestine question. Bush's lack of engagement is yet another thing that will make historians shake their heads about him. |
Well the Middle East is a hell of a lot closer to Europe than it is the the US.
And you lecture me when you say that Russia is an Asian nation.. LOL back at you.
I don't give a shit about Bush because any settlement he forces upon Palestine will be unacceptable to them and probably the rest of the world. You really trust Bush to broker a lasting peace??? Nahh you don't, and I certainly don't. Forget about Bush and the US. The US is a failure in the Middle East. The only thing they know how to do is supply Israel with missles and run amok in in Iraq. This is their obvious answer to the problem.
The UN and the Europeans better wake up soon or the Middle East will blow up in their faces, not in the face of the US. The US has already shown its colors by arming Israel. This is their solution to the Middle East. It is obvious that they will use Israel as their dog in the fight. If you insist on the US solving the problem, you better think again. The old saying "be careful what you wish for, because you just may get it", applies here.
You can ignore the potential solutions in the Middle East, and make all of the excuses for the European inaction and the ineffectiveness of the UN, but in the end, it is these people who need to get some guts and tackle the problem. Not the US
The US needs to get out of the Middle East and leave it to the rest of the world to solve the problems that are only made worse by the aggressive solutions of the US. If the Europeans are serious about allowing the US to solve the Middle East problems, then when they join forces militarily with Israel, and roll through the entire area killing everyone insight, who is going to complain the loudest? The US solution to the Middle East is rooted in violence and anyone who thinks that will change anytime soon, is probably mistaken. It is now only made worse by this so called undeclared war on terror. It will give license to the US to invade places like Syria, Iran, and anywhere else they determine, rightly or wrongly, the bogeyman known as the terrorist, is hiding.
Get some freeking balls Europe and solve a problem for a change, instead of running away and pointing toward the US to fight these fights. Your duplicitious words point to your hypocritical attitudes. Europeans want the US to settle the problems of the Middle East but Europeans want to dictate the terms. The US will settle the problems on its own and Israeli terms as it has done in the past. I say the US gets out completely and then the Europeans have to broker their own peace so if it comes apart, they can blame everyone else except the US.
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Only the US can bring about a settlement of the Palestine question.
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Not true. If the US simply stopped supporting Israel with weapons, and systematically began a disengagement in the Middle East, it would force the UN and the Europeans to broker a settlement themselves. Perhaps the Europeans should quit looking towards the US to solve these problems. They don't like the solutions imposed by the US anyway. We have enough of our own problems at home, we don't need to particapate in these lingering problems from WWII and particpate in their antiquated organizations like NATO and the UN.