No Talking
Former President Jimmy Carter has brought home in 3D color just how far out of reality that George W Bush and Condi Rice are when they utter Dick Cheney’s (AIPAC supplied) script, “we don’t negotiate with terrorists”. Carter’s visit to Syria and meetings with Syrian and Hamas leaders demonstrated the huge hole in the Bush approach. How can you reach and agreement with someone you do not talk to?
The situation seems so obvious that you are left with only two conclusions:
1. The Bush/Cheney/Rice trio are just about the dumbest threesome that any Government could put forward. (There is a lot going for this conclusion based on cumulative evidence on everything from Katrina to Guantanamo to Iraq to the sinking dollar to doubling the national debt.)
2. The current status of Hamas shooting rockets into Israel is actual what the Israelis want and the US policy is simply to aid this Israeli choice. (For sure the Israelis would prefer no rockets being fired but they more prefer the status quo in negotiations with the Palestinians so that they can build more settlements in occupied lands.)
When Jimmy Carter goes off on his own and meets with Hamas and Syria, and finds out that there could be movement and potentially agreements reached if a good faith effort were undertaken, you get to see how two faced the American position is. For sure, if the US was interested in peace in the Middel East, including Iraq, they would be double teaming this Carter initiative. The US lack of action speaks volumes about our Governments real intentions.
What can we do about it?
1. Vote for someone (President and in the fall members of Congress) who will seriously pursue peace in the Middle East.
2. Start your own campaign to reduce your dependence on foreign oil.
3. Vote for the Presidential candidate that will undertake a real national effort to wean the country from fossil fuels.
