Kenton Keith knows plenty about the Middle East, having spent much of his 33-year foreign service career there and served as U.S. ambassador to Qatar under the first President Bush. While in town last week to speak to the Wichita Committee on Foreign Relations, the University of Kansas graduate told The Eagle editorial board that a U.S.-led solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict would take wind out of the sails of the insurgency in Iraq. Keith spoke of the much-maligned Al-Jazeera TV network, based in Qatar, as an “amazingly wonderful thing,” in that it presents multiple points of view — including Israeli ones — to a wide Mideast audience. He said it does not go unnoticed by Muslims that U.S. casualties in Iraq are tallied daily and Iraqi dead go entirely uncounted, as if they don’t count as human beings. And, he said, “the way you deal with terrorism is not to kill all the terrorists but to isolate them within their societies.” Meaning our 500-pound bombs aren’t the best means to our desired end.
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“Terrorism” is a hoax and cannot be won because it does not exist. 9/11 was a retaliatory attack, not a “terrorist” attack.
The editorial board of the Wichita Eagle are wordsmiths and fully understand the meaning of a misnomer. Yet you’ve used the misnomer “terrorism” in your question.
The Israelis named the Palestinian resistance to defending their homes, farms, and villages as “terrorism” in order to garner sympathy and money from the United States and just since 1973 “terrorism” has taken-in 1.6 trillion dollars as the reward.
We are not fighting “terrorism,” we are attempting to conquer the Middle East, by beating the Arabs into submission.
Even Bush says we are fighting “insurgents,” then switches to : If we leave Iraq then the “terrorists” will have won………What terrorists?
How some “terrorists” are created:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/641839.html
President George W. Bush gave Prime Minster Ariel Sharon of Israel an antique map of “greater Israel,” which extends all the way from the Nile River to the Euphrates River.
There is no ” war against “terrorism” but this is another “Crusade.”
Arabs and Al-Jazeera TV network, unlike Americans, understand what Bush and the neoconservatives in America are actually doing. Americans are mostly in the dark. American opinion is be manipulated by the Zionist owned MSM.
The price that the American People have to pay for Israel to rule the world is too high and as Americans are waking-up to what Bush is really doing, his support is becoming nonexistent.
There is a reason why the President of Iran Said: “Israel should be wiped off of the map.”
And that reason is not ” anti-Semitism.” The President of Iran is responding to the real threat Israel represents to this world, which in turn answers the reason why the world thinks: “Israel is the greatest threat to world peace.”
The WE editorial board may not like the answer to its question, but that does not change the fact that the answer is the truth.
There is no Iraqi Army to fight back, but today The United States is dropping those ” 500 lb. bombs ” on Iraqi villages on the greatest killing spree of the ” war ” as Bush’s way of claiming “progress.”
Every conscious American should hang their head in shame.
George W. Bush and Ariel Sharon are war-criminals and if the Nuremberg Trails were held today, their crimes would pale against the Nazis receiving the death penalty.
{ Sharon has already been relieved from duty by the Israeli Government of the past {not the Likuds of today } for his participation the the massacre of the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatilla, Beirut, in September 1982.}
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/feb2002/sab-f22.shtml
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/nuremberg.htm
We have a real crisis on our hands. Israel and Israeli/ neoconservative/cabal infecting the White House will not allow Bush to stop this crusade. That, will effectively end Israel’s conquest for world dominance.
It may be time for true Americans like Colin Powell to step-up to the plate. Although I hope that that will not necessary.
Hopefully, they will all go quietly.
Confirmation of more lies.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1107/dailyUpdate.html
Gee Ed, I think they made this one just for you.
It seems that way.
And I won’t stop until we get America’s finest and our country back home.
George W. Bush wants the CIA to be able to torture Arabs to find out how they intend to retaliate for all the Arabs he’s killing.
Americans do not want torture to be a part of American law. But he doesn’t care what Americans think, or want or don’t want or how many soldiers die or how much gasoline costs or how much debt he’s creating or Christians values or common decency or morality or the Bill of Rights or anything American.
He does care about satisfying Israeli greed.
Man, Is he ever some piece of work. Unbelievable.—–
Senator John McCain will attach a “no torture” clause to any law being passed by the Senate.
Bush just said he will veto any such “anti-torture” provision.
Man, Is he ever some piece of work. Unbelievable.
The “News” just said they were worried about whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden.
I’ve been real worried about that myself.
The last time I filled my gas tank, that’s all I could think about.
The “News” just said that Osama might be dead. But then again he might not be dead.
I am so glad that they got that straightened out.
Now I can fill my gas tank and just worry how I am going to pay for it.
What’s this got to do the phony “war on terrorism”? Absolutely nothing.
Prop 2 in Texas outlawing queer marriage and any sort of “unions” got these words used by the Dallas morning News who lost. It passed 75% to 25%.
Talk about sore losers: these words were using in describing their loss:
Texas Reich, brownshirts, hate, trashing, not too gracious, plagued, swarms, seething, Klan { KKK } Nazis, Supremacy groups, Jim Crow Laws, KKK, Pat Robertson, hateful voters, tyranny of the masses, Depriving Blacks, Huff and Puff, Flag-burners, Ku-Kluckers, Hateful Yahoos, Discrimination, White Southerners, Segregationists, Hate, Bigot
I tried of typing. But here’s what I told them:
Victoria, If your reader wants the real reason why prop 2 passed overwhelmingly, he may not like it but here’s the truth.Homosexuality was removed as a mental illness in 1973. That was done for political reasons. As you can see by the prop 2 vote, most people are not comfortable with homosexuals having the same status and do not want to pander to any sexual deviation, as the association between homosexuals and pedophiles is uncomfortably too close. Many Catholic Priests have placed their sexual deviate behavior above the well being of children. Frankly, homosexuals are not trusted, and many people find the behavior disgusting.Many Homosexuals tend to be “in your face” about themselves, which adds to a general dislike. The renaming to “gay” also serves as an affront. Prop 2 was not just a statement about marriage, it’s obviously a condemnation of homosexuality, along with associated conduct as well.An overwhelming vote such as this stems from a frustration of ordinary people annoyed with the MSM pandering to homosexuals, as seen by so many newspaper endorsements.Well, Like it or not, there it is.
And This:
The DMN editorial board creates its own little fantasy world, then reality slaps you in the face and you’re really at a loss as to how to think about that.Perhaps if you read your Spam-buckets and at lease tried to understand why people don’t like you, but as Rod Dreher said: ” how out of touch we are with our audience would require us to change in ways we’d really rather not, thank you very much.”http://www.chris-floyd.com/fallujah/