Fixing the Middle East


	Fixing the Middle East

deb2012

4-23-2008 8:19 AM

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geopolitics

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provacative, filled with historical perspective, well thought out, optimistic, and entirely worth reading.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/dc040f83-66c6-4335-8755-383197a59158/65FF32DC-ED31-42A0-9F47-8E2298892E2D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kondratyev/message/28174" href="http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kondratyev/message/28174" style="font-size: 11px;">tech.groups.yahoo.com</a></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">Eight years ago <ST1>Iraq</ST1> was not a problem and the 
<ST1><ST1>US</ST1></ST1> still had some tall buildings.&nbsp;</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">Reading the day to day news we 
get a negative view of the future.&nbsp;</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">In every situation there are 
trade offs.&nbsp; The best deal results when all parties perceive they are 
getting what they want.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp;</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>.&nbsp; </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.&nbsp;</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>.&nbsp;</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 
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