"ALL CAPS IN DEFENSE OF LIBERTY IS NO VICE."

Tuesday, November 16, 2004

THE ROAD TO RAMALLAH BEGINS IN BAGHDAD - and it goes through Damascus and Tehran

A two-state solution is predicated on there being a second state. As of now there is only one - Israel. Bush's bold pro-Palestinian State Policy was predicated on the Palestinian's first attaining a transparent democratic self-rule in the territories. This has not happened yet.

Arafat's death has made many in the media qvell with wishful-thinking: his passing will allow the Palestinians to attain a transparent and democratic self-rule and thereby give Peace a Second Chance. FAT CHANCE; (or slim chance, take your pick!).

Arafat's death will not change Hamas or Hizballah or the PFLP or IJ or Tanzim into two-staters; they are and will remain one-staters: people who believe in the destruction of Israel (and who will use genocidal terror to accomplish that) and in replacing it with a novel Islamic state called Palestine.

The ONLY way to change that dynamic - to neutralize the genocidal terroristic one-staters - is to get Syria and Iran to cease any and all support for them. The only way to accomplish this is to put EXTREME PRESSURE on Syria and Iran.
Our success in Iraq is an absolutely necessary precondition for accomplishing this. Once we are successful in Iraq - and the January elections there (and in "Palestine" are a HUGE step in that direction) - we MUST issue ULTIMATUMS to Syria and Iran:

(1) to Syria we immediately demand an immediate and complete withdrawal of all forces from Lebanon and a suspension for any and all support to any and all Palestinian and/or pan-Arabist terrorist organizations. Or we shall attack and demolish their military and their economy; there should be NO OFFER OF INSTALLING A POST-ASSAD DEMOCRACY OR FOR RECONSTUCTION. As a carrot, we can offer them aid if THEY hold elections and transform themselves into a transparent democracy.

(2) We tell Iran that they must suspend any and all support for any and all Palestinian and/or pan-Arabist terrorist organizations or we will destroy their military (including their Navy) and their economy - including ALL THEIR OIL ASSETS. There should be no carrot offered.

Because the threat we would be making against Syria and Iran involves NO RECONSTRUCTION, the attacks against Syria and Iran could be done by sustained, intense aerial bombardment, and would involve NO TROOPS ON THE GROUND.

Because of Bush's bold military actions against the Taliban and Saddam, Syria is now surrounded by nations which should be allies in this ultimatum: NATO's Turkey, Israel, and Occupied Iraq. And Iran is now surrounded by Occupied Iraq and Occupied Afghanistan. The barrel of the gun is against their heads - so-to-speak.

Naturally, these threats would NOT be issued with or after a UNSCR. These military actions would be undertaken WITHOUT seeking U.N. approval - as was Clinton's war against Milosevic.

Once Iran and Syria cease to support any and all Jihadoterrorism, the GWOT is more than half over. And a Palestinian state can slouch towards Bethlehem.

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