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US system clearly doesn't work as intended
Reader comment on item: Bush's Middle East Hopes [and His Failures]
in response to reader comment: How come this proclivity to failure in the Middle East is not addressed by the checks and balances of the American political system?
Submitted by Charles Martel (United States), Jan 18, 2008 at 13:35
As another example that parallels your question -- why don't we seal the border with Mexico, if 80% of Americans want that?
Polls show that about 80% of Americans want that, but neither party has embraced it.
The Democrats I can understand, but that is a clear GOP-voter policy, but the candidates embracing it have made little progress.
I concluded, because of the border issue, that we do live in an oligarchy after all -- but that kind of answers our muddled Mid-East policies as well.
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| America's Traitors [163 words] | John Hammond | Feb 12, 2008 22:22 | 120051 | ||
| The Policy of Friends and Imagination. [201 words] | Jay | Jan 23, 2008 23:43 | 118855 | ||
| A President who's been left behind [284 words] | Roy Weinberg | Jan 20, 2008 11:49 | 118625 | ||
 Not So Simple [87 words] | Blackspeare | Jan 21, 2008 11:06 | 118625 | ||
| Blackspeare rewrites history [263 words] | Infidel | Jan 25, 2008 19:28 | 118625 | ||
| Who Jumped What Gun? [259 words] | Sofa Sogood | Jan 27, 2008 16:09 | 118625 | ||
| Bush's Legacy [533 words] | Gil Bindelglas | Jan 18, 2008 20:31 | 118516 | ||
| Bush's Legacy [94 words] | Infidel | Jan 19, 2008 21:38 | 118516 | ||
| To Infidel [129 words] | Larry B. | Jan 20, 2008 20:23 | 118516 | ||
| The world needs a strong USA [110 words] | Infidel | Jan 20, 2008 23:41 | 118516 | ||
| Fighting terrorism [101 words] | Linda Haslam | Jan 24, 2008 11:17 | 118516 | ||
| Maybe there is a cultural determinism [235 words] | Peter Herz | Jan 18, 2008 11:51 | 118457 | ||
| cultural diversity and cultural acceptance. [319 words] | Trans-parere | Jan 19, 2008 18:03 | 118457 | ||
| With such friends... [818 words] | Y brandstetter MD | Jan 18, 2008 04:53 | 118444 | ||
| Corruption and ignorance [213 words] | Joe Kaffir | Jan 19, 2008 01:33 | 118444 | ||
| Churchill no friend of the Jews [88 words] | Infidel | Jan 19, 2008 21:54 | 118444 | ||
| Churchill: friend or foe [171 words] | Joe Kaffir | Jan 21, 2008 00:55 | 118444 | ||
| Churchill: friend and foe [250 words] | Infidel | Jan 22, 2008 02:12 | 118444 | ||
| Antisemitism-shmantishmemitism [198 words] | Peter Herz | Jan 23, 2008 07:38 | 118444 | ||
| Israel's True Hope is in the Word of Her Eternal Sovereign. [545 words] | M. Tovey | Jan 23, 2008 13:30 | 118444 | ||
| Tragic [27 words] | Abu Nudnik | Jan 17, 2008 23:38 | 118430 | ||
| BUSH HAS LOST CONTROL OF HIS MIDEAST POLICY TO STATE DEPT ARABISTS [139 words] | G. Marcus | Jan 17, 2008 23:21 | 118429 | ||
| PLO Phased Plan To Destroy Israel Documented - State Dept. Follows It [35 words] | Sofa Sogood | Jan 18, 2008 23:43 | 118429 | ||
| The middle east is complicated. [536 words] | David | Jan 17, 2008 21:01 | 118424 | ||
| Should islam be accorded the respect accorded to other religions? [335 words] | Hymie Zoltsveis | Jan 17, 2008 16:51 | 118402 | ||
| How 'bout this one [84 words] | jennifer solis | Jan 18, 2008 00:33 | 118402 | ||
| The respect islam craves [208 words] | Sean | Jan 18, 2008 15:56 | 118402 | ||
| I ABSOLUTELY AGREE WITH YOU,HYMIE! [172 words] | TTS | Jan 18, 2008 21:18 | 118402 | ||
| Hymie..TTS.. You get it right..Look at the Egyptian example..1400 years of persecution.. [265 words] | Egyptian Christian | Jan 20, 2008 07:16 | 118402 | ||
| 1 | TO SURVIVE JIHAD ONSLAUGHT, WEST NEEDS TO REPEAL ISLAM'S 'RELIGION' STATUS [324 words] | G. Marcus | Jan 20, 2008 15:41 | 118402 | |
| islam guarantees.......... [77 words] | vijay | Jan 21, 2008 12:45 | 118402 | ||
| Respect for Islam [57 words] | Linda Haslam | Jan 24, 2008 11:29 | 118402 | ||
| I wish that both of us were WRONG [985 words] | Hymie Zoltsveis | Jan 24, 2008 19:15 | 118402 | ||
| To Linda, [109 words] | Larry B. | Feb 2, 2008 14:14 | 118402 | ||
| The specter of another Viet-Nam or ...The Continuing [22 words] | trans-parere | Jan 17, 2008 15:41 | 118398 | ||
| A "democracy" is only as good or as bad as the people [257 words] | rick | Jan 21, 2008 16:02 | 118398 | ||
| Rick [303 words] | Trans-parere | Jan 21, 2008 18:29 | 118398 | ||
| Rick gets it exactly right -- on two vital points [100 words] | Charles Martel | Jan 22, 2008 11:22 | 118398 | ||
| Islam, historically has been an enemy of diversity [527 words] | Rick | Jan 22, 2008 16:48 | 118398 | ||
| Support [116 words] | Shahid Kinnare | Jan 17, 2008 15:20 | 118397 | ||
| Israel History [192 words] | Infidel | Jan 17, 2008 16:49 | 118397 | ||
| Israel. [51 words] | Shahid Kinnare | Jan 17, 2008 18:31 | 118397 | ||
| 1 | Muslims know Israel has ALWAYS belonged to Jews- Including muhamad.. [467 words] | Ynnatchkah | Jan 17, 2008 19:51 | 118397 | |
| Voting Does Not Make a Democracy -- Gov't by Sharia Law Can Never Be a Democracy -- Worse than Most Dictatorships [1733 words] | Sofa Sogood | Jan 17, 2008 21:54 | 118397 | ||
| 5 | History of Muhammad and the Jews of Mecca [139 words] | Infidel | Jan 18, 2008 22:01 | 118397 | |
| Great comments, Infidel! It's time to be proactive, instead of reactive, to "Palestinian" propaganda. [316 words] | DrRJP | Jan 19, 2008 11:03 | 118397 | ||
| Dictatorial Regime [73 words] | Shahid Kinnare | Jan 19, 2008 11:08 | 118397 | ||
| Very Impressive- Infidel [11 words] | Ynnatchkah | Jan 19, 2008 16:47 | 118397 | ||
| Us Support of Dictatorship [50 words] | Joe | Jan 21, 2008 19:47 | 118397 | ||
| Why U.S. Sometimes Supports Dictatorial Regimes -- Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt [1879 words] | Sofa Sogood | Jan 22, 2008 16:09 | 118397 | ||
| Dictator. [152 words] | Shahid Kinnare | Jan 22, 2008 21:15 | 118397 | ||
| Jewish Right of Return ---to Mecca OR Why muslims MUST be forced to DIVIDE MECCA [119 words] | Hymie Zoltsveis | Jan 25, 2008 01:51 | 118397 | ||
| Dictatorship or Militant Theocracy [184 words] | Joe | Jan 25, 2008 03:30 | 118397 | ||
| Blaming the U.S. is Too Easy [285 words] | Sofa Sogood | Jan 25, 2008 23:35 | 118397 | ||
| Muslim world [150 words] | Shahid Kinnare | Jan 27, 2008 23:46 | 118397 | ||
| Support for Dictatorship Means Security [121 words] | Joe | Jan 30, 2008 12:31 | 118397 | ||
| General Musharraf [89 words] | Shahid Kinnare | Jan 31, 2008 21:57 | 118397 | ||
| Myanmar vs Pakistan [85 words] | Joe | Feb 3, 2008 15:49 | 118397 | ||
| Inaccurate information being put forth [121 words] | Troy | Nov 21, 2009 01:00 | 118397 | ||
| THE DEATH OF JESUS IS THE BIGGEST SECRET IN THE QURAN [124 words] | OSAMA | May 15, 2014 02:26 | 118397 | ||
| NOT UNDERSTANDING WHAT YOU ARE SAYING TO THE WORLD [76 words] | AMARA KONNEH | Apr 30, 2015 09:26 | 118397 | ||
| Bush and Middle East [100 words] | Janusz Kowalik | Jan 17, 2008 14:49 | 118396 | ||
| I agree and would add to your comment [397 words] | kid bertha | Jan 21, 2008 12:21 | 118396 | ||
| IFF Failure - Mis-identification of the Enemy [153 words] | M. Tovey | Jan 17, 2008 14:07 | 118391 | ||
| Daniel has converged toward my despair of Bush's incompetence [173 words] | Charles Martel | Jan 17, 2008 12:42 | 118388 | ||
| full- steam backwards [228 words] | Rebecca Moulds | Jan 17, 2008 12:13 | 118386 | ||
| Not everything is in the political arena [66 words] | David W. Lincoln | Jan 17, 2008 12:07 | 118384 | ||
| Pragmatism vs Principles [262 words] | Ralph C Whaley MD | Jan 17, 2008 11:17 | 118382 | ||
| Iran is not the main enemy -- the Saudis are [86 words] | Charles Martel | Jan 18, 2008 13:06 | 118382 | ||
| Bush is moving towards strike three [339 words] | Rick | Jan 17, 2008 09:45 | 118378 | ||
| Not to Worry [97 words] | Blackspeare | Jan 18, 2008 13:54 | 118378 | ||
| Whatever Abbas does or does not do is meaningless [246 words] | Rick | Jan 21, 2008 12:44 | 118378 | ||
| Democracy [142 words] | Donald W. Bales | Jan 17, 2008 09:29 | 118377 | ||
| Bush's legacy: Sucking up to the Saudis and a stupid state department [369 words] | DrRJP | Jan 17, 2008 08:55 | 118376 | ||
| Bush's Middle East Hopes [1018 words] | Kim Segar | Jan 17, 2008 08:26 | 118373 | ||
| Seven years too late. [64 words] | Larry Shaw | Jan 17, 2008 08:23 | 118372 | ||
| THE RISE OF NUCLEAR IRAN [3645 words] | Bruce Sterling | Jan 17, 2008 07:58 | 118371 | ||
| Being politically correct [59 words] | Mick | Jan 17, 2008 06:10 | 118369 | ||
| Vote Keep America Alive [83 words] | Amil Imani | Jan 17, 2008 04:14 | 118366 | ||
| How come this proclivity to failure in the Middle East is not addressed by the checks and balances of the American political system? [126 words] | Mladen Andrijasevic | Jan 17, 2008 03:17 | 118365 | ||
 US system clearly doesn't work as intended [86 words] | Charles Martel | Jan 18, 2008 13:35 | 118365 | ||
| Yes, What is Preventing the Securing of the Borders? [62 words] | Sofa Sogood | Jan 18, 2008 22:13 | 118365 | ||
| Some problems don't have palatable solutions and some questions don't have simple answers [128 words] | Sully | Jan 21, 2008 08:26 | 118365 | ||
| The Israelis, quite naturally, want to live in peace. And so do the Palestinians. - This statement needs clarification. [300 words] | Mladen Andrijasevic | Jan 22, 2008 01:54 | 118365 | ||
| What Evidence is there that Palestinians Want to Live in Peace? [167 words] | Sofa Sogood | Jan 22, 2008 15:07 | 118365 | ||
| Mladen and Sofa - You have read more into my comment than I intended [64 words] | Sully | Jan 25, 2008 09:18 | 118365 | ||
| 1 | Nothing was read in -- You said that Palestinians want peace. [319 words] | Sofa Sogood | Jan 25, 2008 23:15 | 118365 |
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