Scowcroft – A memo from Bush 41? By Arnaud de Borchgrave

Borchgrave posits a plan by Brent Scowcroft which is the best plan we have seen so far. It should follow the proposal by the Saudi King which was ignored by the current Bush administration. I would offer some modifications: Make Jerusalem an International City under the UN. It could be the capitol of both Israel and Palestine. Why not give the Golan Heights back or make them a UN area. Until this problem is solved the people of this area, the Middle East and the World will know no peace. The Americans will not be trusted by Arabs. Jews are risking the rise of anti-Semit feelings due to Israel actions. Since my work for JFK I have warned of the Palestine problem being the precurser of WWIII. MB
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, July 31, 2006

All Fall Down by William Rivers Pitt

My Comments: Let's us recall that Iraq was carved out of the old Ottoman Empire and put together by British cartographers who had no real knowledge of the tribal structures. It was to be part of the promised reward to the Arabs who helped T.E.Lawrence destroy the Hejaz RR. (I know my facts as I was participating in the suppose reconstruction of the railroad-a promise by the US-never kept. Another betryal of the Arabs by the West.) No way could Iraq stay together without a dictator. Just as Tito kept Yugoslavia together. We will see Kurds in the North, Shias in the South and Sunnis in the Middle. It will exist as the Israel/Palestine quandry until the big boys put a stop to it. But why should they bother with all those oil profits. Michael Butler
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, July 27, 2006

Michael Butler: “An Inconvenient Truth”

Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, July 23, 2006

FT: Growing inequality is turning America inward by By Jacques Mistral

Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, July 20, 2006

Chris Hedges: Mutually Assured Destruction in the Middle East

This is the beginning of WWIII. More than half the fault is ours.
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, July 15, 2006

It’s The Conservatism, Stupid

Some excellant food for thought and action in Paul Waldman's positions
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, July 13, 2006

It’s broke so fix it By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE

What he writes is the beginning of a summary of the basic problem facing all of us: Extremism
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, July 10, 2006

Why Conservatives Can’t Govern by Alan Wolfe

If yesterday's conservative was a liberal mugged by reality, today's is a free-marketer fattened by pork.
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, July 6, 2006

The Destabilization Game By Tom Engelhardt

More on the Russian situation
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, July 5, 2006

The New American Cold War

Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, July 1, 2006