Message #123 (130 is last):
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 09:16:22 -0500
From: pimann@pobox.com ("Dan Sullivan")
Subject: [libs4peace] Libertarian solution in the Middle East
To: libs4peace@yahoogroups.com
Reply-To: pimann@pobox.com


On 17 Apr 2002,,  bdawgdoodle wrote:

>  I would like to pose a question that

> perhaps is relevant and to which undoubtedly some of

> you have opinions:  What would a (peaceful) libertarian

> solution to this conflict look like? Trying to answer

> that and advocating it is would be considerably more

> helpful than bickering.


The word "peaceful" is redundant.

The obvious first step is to end military aid to all 
countries, including Israel. It would also be to stop 
propping up dictatorships and monarchies. 

A libertarian America would formally apologize to Iran 
for overthrowing President Mossadech and imposing the 
Shaw as absolute monarch, for similarly overthrowing 
the elected government of Syria, and for fuding Iraq 
to wage war with Iran once the Shaw was deposed. It 
would also formally apologize to Iraq for covertly 
funding Iran and bringing that war to a long and 
bloody stalemate, and for giving Iraq promises that we 
would not intervene in an attack against Kuwait, and 
then using that attack as an excuse to wage a massive 
assault against Iraq. 

Finally, it would recognize that Israel was created by 
mandates of foreign powers, who have no right to 
impose their wills on indigenous peoples, and would 
recognize the rights of the *entire* population, by 
democratic process, to create a single government or 
multiple governments according to the desires of those 
peoples. We would take no action in any case, as our 
jurisdiction ends with our borders, but we would state 
our views that Israel's right to exist and be 
recognized by us as a legitimate country is subject to 
her acceptance of the indigenous peoples as full and 
equal citizens, not just after the fact, but in the 
construction of the government from the ground up.


Dan Sullivan <pimann@pobox.com>




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