Comments on: NIE summary released

By: Daniel DiRito

Daniel DiRito — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:48:30 +0000

I contend that the Iraqi conflict, as well as the prevailing Middle East tensions, will be lessened in equal proportion to the success we achieve in providing for a Palestinian state. Given that the NIE assessment posits that, “If democratic reform efforts in Muslim majority nations progress over the next five years, political participation probably would drive a wedge between intransigent extremists and groups willing to use the political process to achieve their local objectives”, then it would be reasonable to conclude that any progress with the Palestinian issue will greatly enhance the speculative potentiality of the NIE report. Absent the Palestinian effort, I’m of the opinion that the NIE timeframe is overly optimistic and dependent upon a relatively static progression without the prevalence of unforeseen events and escalations…which seems unlikely at best.

Frankly, I doubt that the existing Republican approach or the alternative of withdrawal supported by a number Democrats will serve to alleviate the existing conditions and bring relative stability to the troubled region. Neither approach has the wherewithal to alter the prevailing sentiment. Conversely, a voluntary effort that would demonstrate our ability to discern the profound importance of a successful Palestinian state would, in my opinion, yield exponential goodwill. Given the current conditions, such an effort has little risk.

By: conservative republican

conservative republican — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:07:23 +0000

It seems irrelevant whether this report means anything. To President Bush it is not important whether we are winning in Iraq or not. This war is just the means to maintain this country on a war footing. If it were not Iraq, it would be somewhere else.

The underlying aim is an eventual permanent control of American institutions by a particular brand of Conservatives and their agenda.

Unfortunately these conservatives spouse a destructive brand of agenda that is gradually destroying our country, the environment, the middle class, our way of life, our institutions and our constitution. Until this agenda is discredited the damage will continue.

This is the Conservative Terror that should keep Americans scared stiff and terror struck.

By: Jimmy the Dhimmi

Jimmy the Dhimmi — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:05:04 +0000

I put the invasion of iraq at about number 7 on my top 10 of what radicalizes muslims:

1) Cartoonists
2) Popes
3) Obscure Anglo-Indian authors
4) Flushing Korans down toilets
5) Supporting Saddam Hussein in the 1980′s
6) Sanctioning Saddam Hussein in the 1990′s
7) Removing Saddam Hussein from Power in 2003
8) The invasion of Afghanistan
9) Satellite TV broadcasts of Baywatch
10) The success of 9/11