----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Perrin" <dperrin at comcast.net>
> That's why it's important, in my view, to ask, if not war with Saddam,
then
> what? Because you can't advance any decent position on the Middle East
> without answering that question. It's easy and terribly smug to chant
"US
> Out of the Middle East!," but what does that really mean? The US is
deeply
> connected there (in mostly negative ways, true), and played a
significant
> role in helping Saddam build his war machine and feeding his
territorial
> ambition. A retreat to isolationism, or something similar, isn't gonna
work,
> and may cause more bloodshed down the road.
>
> I don't know the answer, comrades. It's a tough region to deal with,
the
> only region I've studied where turning each page was like lifting
marble, so
> heavy the history and the probable future.
>
> DP
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Well, when I type *peace research* into Google I get: Results 1 - 10 of about 1,760,000. Search took 0.27 seconds. So there's gotta be some nuggets for us to chew on if, in the process of growing an international anti-war movement, we hope to become an international peace movement......
Ian