Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 00:59:59 -0000
From: dewaine_mcbride@yahoo.com ("dewaine_mcbride")
Subject: [libs4peace] Eliminate US intervention how?
To: libs4peace@yahoogroups.com


What I have seen on several lists and news opinion sources is either 

A) there should be peace and the US should get out of the areas of 
Israel and any other Middle East nations [as if peace would ensue 
were the US military to leave], 

B) the US should essentially blow up all the Arabs [as if the war on 
terrorism will stop terrorism, like the war on drugs has stopped all 
drugs], or

C) the US should stand by Israel as our ally, and either blow up all 
the Arabs or not blow up all the Arabs.

What I have NOT seen anywhere is how to humanely remove the US as a 
political/military force in the area.  I think basically the calls 
for peace have been mostly unthoughtful or downright homicidal, even 
by those whose pacifism is worn as a badge of humanitarianism.  It 
doesn't seem particularly moral to suddenly adopt a policy of 
nonintervention when such unthinking policy adoption would result in 
the slaughter of thousands or millions, a slaughter which would be 
related to prior bad policies of intervention.  If the US were to 
withdraw all military troops immediately, [I would think it likely 
that] an awful lot of Jews would kill an awful lot of Palestinians, 
and an awful lot of Arabs from other nations would try to take out 
their revenge on the Jews, and a horrendous amount of carnage would 
ensue all around.  Much of the carnage would have to be blamed on the 
US intervention in the first place, from Egypt to Afghanistan, in the 
last 100 years or so.

The only thing I can imagine that would be slightly ethical, as soon 
as the LP takes over the international relations of the US Gov't, 
would be to first announce to all parties that at a certain date, 
say, two years in the future, the US would withdraw all troops and 
government aid ($) from the region.  The date should allow time for 
people to start making preparations to leave if they feel insecurity 
would be too great without the US policing the region, and may be 
more or less than 2 years -- the amount of time exactly is not the 
point.  Also with this announcement would have to be a plan carried 
out to allow people desiring to leave to be assited/allowed entry to 
the US and/or other designated areas acceptable to nations 
participating with the US in such a plan [maybe the UK, since they 
share the guilt with the US in the whole fiasco] and a few oter 
nations.

This might not be feasible, or the correct way to stop war once it 
has started.  But I would be interested if, in an effort to actually 
persuade the LP, the Gov't, or others, anyone had actually come up 
with any ideas on how to bring about some stability and peace which 
would actually help to solve the problems started or perpetuated by 
the US in the first place, and which would promote a [moral] policy 
of nonintervention.

 - Dewaine


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