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Fixing the Middle East
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4-23-2008 8:19 AM
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provacative, filled with historical perspective, well thought out, optimistic, and entirely worth reading.
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Eisenhower’s choice in <ST1><ST1>Korea</ST1></ST1> was to either escalate using nuclear weapons going after Mao or draw a line at the 38<SUP>th</SUP> parallel. </SPAN></FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kondratyev/message/28174"><FONT face=Rockwell size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Rockwell">So how does this work in the <ST1>Middle East</ST1>. </SPAN></FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kondratyev/message/28174"><FONT face=Rockwell size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Rockwell">The first intelligent thing for the next administration is to back away from Saudi. </SPAN></FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kondratyev/message/28174"><FONT face=Rockwell size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Rockwell">Open the door with <ST1><ST1>Iran</ST1></ST1>. </SPAN></FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kondratyev/message/28174">Trade the Shiite South of Iraq to <ST1><ST1>Iran</ST1></ST1> for a number of things</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kondratyev/message/28174"><FONT face=Rockwell size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Rockwell">Give the Kurds a homeland – autonomy.</SPAN></FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kondratyev/message/28174">In truth, the only way to solve the Palestinian problem is to move these people somewhere else.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kondratyev/message/28174">Offer those willing to move </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kondratyev/message/28174"><FONT face=Rockwell size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Rockwell">Free education for their children, land they can own and even a bit of an income from oil revenues.<O></O></SPAN></FONT> </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/65FF32DC-ED31-42A0-9F47-8E2298892E2D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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