Cheney: US won't be party to terror state

[Christ's Free Servant]

Jerusalem Newswire www.jnewswire.com

Cheney: US won't be party to terror state

By Ryan Jones

March 8th, 2006

US Vice President Dick Cheney Tuesday declared Washington will not be party to the birth of a terrorist state in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, but failed to recognize that America has already laid the groundwork for such an entity.

Speaking to a gathering of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Cheney said:

"The United States will not be a party to the establishment of a Palestinian state that sponsors terror and violence."

His words were directed at the Hamas terrorist organization, which in January shattered American assumptions that democracy is the key to Middle East peace when it scored an overwhelming victory in Palestinian Authority general elections.

Many would argue that the US has already made itself a party to the establishment of a "Palestinian" terror state by virtue of its long support for Yasser Arafat's PLO. The PLO, now headed by Arafat's former deputy, Mahmoud Abbas, was just 15 years ago still recognized as the world's premier terrorist network, the Al Qaeda of its day.

From "Oslo" to Wye to the Road Map, the Unites States more than any other nation has helped to entrench the idea that the Arabs of Judea, Samaria and Gaza are entitled to a separate state, and put them in a position to move ahead aggressively with the establishment of that state.

Whether Washington will merely step back and allow the terrorists to use the foundation put in place largely by US diplomatic efforts to establish sovereignty, or actively oppose and help prevent the birth of a Hamas terror state remains to be seen.

[jamie]

In some ways trying to bring democracy to some of the islamic nations is being a party to terror also.

These people will use their freedom to vote in terrorist leaders.

We need to leave these nations the way they are, we are upsetting the natural balance of things. The more we try to help them, the worse it gets.

America has her hand in way too much.

[Guest shiloh357]

In some ways trying to bring democracy to some of the islamic nations is being a party to terror also.

These people will use their freedom to vote in terrorist leaders.

We need to leave these nations the way they are, we are upsetting the natural balance of things. The more we try to help them, the worse it gets.

America has her hand in way too much.

I could not agree more, jamie.

[O'Dannyboy]

There is a reason for it working out this way. Perhaps The U.S. dealings with Yassar Arafat slowed down the tempo of his movement, long enough for him to die before seeing any fruit short of successful terrorist attacks.

[Catsmeow]

In some ways trying to bring democracy to some of the islamic nations is being a party to terror also.

These people will use their freedom to vote in terrorist leaders.

We need to leave these nations the way they are, we are upsetting the natural balance of things.

This is why I changed my position regarding the war. I realized that "democracy" in the hands of these people DOESN'T work by virtue of the religion of Islam.

[Christ's Free Servant]

In some ways trying to bring democracy to some of the islamic nations is being a party to terror also.

These people will use their freedom to vote in terrorist leaders.

We need to leave these nations the way they are, we are upsetting the natural balance of things.

This is why I changed my position regarding the war. I realized that "democracy" in the hands of these people DOESN'T work by virtue of the religion of Islam.

I agree! I just don't think we can force our way of life on other people who have lived a certain way forever. You would almost have to begin with a new generation, raise them up under the teachings of democracy, but even then, their cultural influences would still be there fighting against what they were being taught. I just don't know how we think we should or could make the rest of the world just like us.