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Grex > Agora41 > #103: It doesn't matter who's right: What should everybody else do about the Mideast? | |
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mcnally
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response 25 of 31:
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Apr 21 10:04 UTC 2002 |
I share gull's skepticism.. I think if such a thing were to actually
happen, the two sides would just use it as another reason to hate one
another -- "If you hadn't been so stubborn we wouldn't have lost Jerusalem,"
or "God allowed Jerusalem to be removed rather than let it exist under your
control.."
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other
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response 26 of 31:
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Apr 21 14:33 UTC 2002 |
I enjoyed "The Family Tree," and since it is my only Tepper read so
far...
</drift>
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senna
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response 27 of 31:
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Apr 21 19:12 UTC 2002 |
I'll agree to that. None of the current conflict is actually based on fact
or real issues (we have plenty of evidence for that on this board) and those
issues would simply transfer to something else if we happen to nuke certain
contested areas.
Perhaps we should erect large fences and let them solve it for themselves.
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slynne
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response 28 of 31:
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Apr 21 19:16 UTC 2002 |
I am not sure what the United States *can* do in this situation. We
could stop sending money over there but we would have to consider if
that would do more harm than good. We can put some real diplomatic
pressure onto both sides and that might help.
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janc
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response 29 of 31:
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Apr 21 21:28 UTC 2002 |
(Actually, that wasn't a recommendation for "Fresco". I think it is one
of her weakest recent works. Tepper is in her 70's, and wrote her first
adult SF book in her 50's. I'm not sure, but I have the impression that
she spent much of her life working in the social service trenches. Her
politics probably started liberal but got battered by years of dealing
with irresponsible idiots. The result is probably not too pleasing to
conservatives, but is also uncomfortable for liberals. I think it may be
impossible to enjoy her writing without realizing that it is a crotchety
old lady talking. "Fresco" is one of her more political novels - one of
those where the author arranges the forces of the universe so that their
political theories work. It's a disreputable genre, containing mostly
horrible books, with the notable exception of Ann Rand (whose political
philosophy is silly, but who wrote some thumping good novels
(Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged)). "Fresco" has good points, but
plausibility isn't one of them. For all her faults, I never miss a
Tepper book, though I'm careful never to expect anything except a Tepper
book.)
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janc
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response 30 of 31:
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Apr 21 21:30 UTC 2002 |
Oops. Ayn Rand. Sorry. Don't shoot me.
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other
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response 31 of 31:
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Apr 21 21:44 UTC 2002 |
Oh, yeah. I also read her "After Long Silence," which I also really
liked, but forgot that she had written.
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