NP - Peace? No chance

[Otto]

Well, I liked this one too, although I don't necessarily share all of his
opinion expressed further in that article, maybe except the last sentence:

"Enough is enough, it's time the US got its turkey back"

"Reading Europe's press, it is really reassuring to see how warmly Europeans
have embraced President Bush's formulation that an "axis of evil" threatens
world peace. There's only one small problem. President Bush thinks the axis
of evil is Iran, Iraq and North Korea, and the Europeans think it's Donald
Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice.
(...)
There is an old Bedouin legend that goes like this: an elderly leader
thought that by eating turkey he could restore his virility. So he bought a
turkey, kept it by his tent and stuffed it with food every day. One day
someone stole his turkey. The Bedouin elder called his sons together and
told them: "Boys, we are in great danger. Someone has stolen my turkey."

"Father," the sons answered, "what do you need a turkey for?"

"Never mind," he answered, "just get me back my turkey." But the sons
ignored him and a month later someone stole the old man's camel. "What
should we do?" the sons asked. "Find my turkey," said the father.

But the sons did nothing, and a few weeks later the man's daughter was
raped. The father said to his sons: "It is all because of the turkey. When
they saw that they could take my turkey, we lost everything."

America is that Bedouin elder, and for 20 years people have been taking our
turkey. The Europeans don't favour any military action against Iraq, Iran or
North Korea. Neither do I. But what is their alternative? To wait until
Saddam Hussein's son, Uday, who's a bigger psychopath than his father, has
bio-weapons and missiles that can hit Paris?

No, the axis-of-evil idea isn't thought through - but that's what I like
about it. It says to these countries and their terrorist pals: "We know what
you're cooking in your bathtubs. We don't know exactly what we're going to
do about it, but if you think we are going to just sit back and take another
dose from you, you're wrong. Meet Don Rumsfeld - he's even crazier than you
are."

Thomas Friedman, The Guardian
Saturday February 16, 2002
http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,651208,00.html

Seriously David, what do you think can prevent a war except the USA, the EU
& the UN putting pressure on both sides which includes the famous
UN-resolution demanding a retreat from all occupied territories from Israel.
A Palestinian state could be charged "officially" for harboring terrorism,
its leadership (Arafat or any other) treated like the Taliban if necessary.
But the way it looks now is Israeli state terrorism. And those illegal
Israeli settlers are crazy in my eyes exposing their children to such
dangers.

Otto

----- Original Message -----
From: David Morris <fqmorris at hotmail.com>
To: <o.sell at telda.net>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: NP - Peace? No chance


>
> Propaganda?  From TRP's beloved Guardian?  The NYTimes maybe, but NOT the
> Guardian. ;)
>
> I especially liked his quote from Abba Eban "the Palestinians had never
> missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity."  Sad, especially Benny
> Morris's (no relation) apocalyptic prediction.
>
> David Morris
>
> >From: "Otto" <o.sell at telda.net>
> >
> >Please spare us this kind of propaganda, David, don't challenge me.
> >
> > >
> > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,653594,00.html
> > > Thursday February 21, 2002
> > > The Guardian
>