[Vision2020] Gore's Foreign Policy

[Andreas Schou]

On 2/16/06, Matt Decker <mattd2107 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> James,
>
> My problem with Gore over in Saudi Arabia is not that he is over there
> trying to make amends with middle eastern countries, and our administration.
> I have a problem with him stating we are torturing muslims in the US. At
> this point these are accusations and have no or little proof. I would just
> hope that our former VP would realize these comments do not help our
> situation.

Matt --

You're not paying attention.

The Sidney Morning Herald just published new photographs from Abu
Ghraib: photographs showing shotgun wounds, forced nudity, religious
desevrations, and six more uninvestigated corpses. At Guanatanamo, we
used waterboarding, dogs, temperature extremes, religious desecration,
forced urination and defecation, and death threats on largely
innovcent detainees. These are not wild conspiracy theores. These are
government reports.

This is not to mention what we're doing in the worldwide network of
secret CIA prisons -- a program we know nothing about except that it
apparently exists. The fact that you pretend that these things are not
happening is blindness, callousness, or ignorance. I suggest that you
remedy whichever of the three is the case.

-- ACS

> Matt
>
> >From: "James Reynolds" <chapandmaize at hotmail.com>
> >To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> >Subject: [Vision2020] Gore's Foreign Policy
> >Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 08:56:24 -0800
> >
> >Al Gore was following the only path toward resolution of the long-term
> >miss-steps that our Government has employed in the Mideast. His talk in
> >Saudi Arabia should not (as it is by some) be looked at as anti-America but
> >instead is a first step in reconciling the relationship problems between
> >the Mideast and the USA, American foreign policy has contributed to. We
> >must return to the premise that diplomacy and honest open discourse are the
> >tools needed to rectify our political problems abroad. Our government's
> >reliance on direct military force against foreign governments and military
> >assistance to dissidents against those same governments has contributed
> >manifestly to the problems that are now threatening the security of the
> >Mideast and the American people's own freedom. Our government needs to
> >change its emphasis from the current militaristic attitude to one of
> >diplomacy before it is too late.
> >
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