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Originally posted by Pacifier
what you want are blind followers not allies.
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We aren't asking anyone to follow us anywhere. In the Middle-East and everywhere else we are only asking for people to treat others as they want to be treated. I don't think there is any spin you can put on anything we've thried to do to improve the relations between Israel and the Palestinians that is to anyones advantage but theirs. I don't think you can spin Afghanistan of Iraq in that direction either. Peace is to everyones advantage - economic and otherwise. If one looks at the costs of the Cold War and the economy of Russia and other ex-soviet states it is quite obvious that no nation can afford those types of escalating expenditures. The United States, like most other nations, treat other nations the way that nation treats them. This morning, according to the news, France is now crying over the fact that the amount of time the President is spending in France is much less that what he has spent and intends to spend in other countries. Thet say that this is an indication that he considers them less important than other nations - Perhaps they are not as dumb as they first appear to be if they figured this out on their own.