Editor, N.H.: This is
in reply to J.N.’s letter "Gore the lesser of two evils. (Dec. 6, 2000) .In German there is a saying:
Mitgegangen, mitgehangen -you went along, you hang along; in other words, Gore
was part and thereby is tainted by the Clinton administration. .
Clinton's great
misdeed was not his perjury, as bad as it was, but the giving of an
unconditional loan guaranty of $10 billion to Israel. J.N. speculates if the
editor is one of the Know Nothings, but I wonder about N.’s memory. Let me
therefore take him back to 1992.
George
Bush had just won the Gulf War which I very much opposed and which even now I
don't like any better in spite of the fact that it was this war which gave us
unprecedented low oil prices which fueled the boom times of the past eight
years. Bush must have thought he would be a shoo-in for an eight -year
presidency. But in the eyes of the
"Israeli firsters," he committed an unforgivable sin. He wanted to
attach conditions to the $10 billion loan guaranty for which Israel had asked.
Bush's
intent was clear. He wanted to push the Israelis to settle the conflict with
the Palestinians. Clinton however during the campaign promised and subsequently
gave the loan guaranty unconditionally: The Israelis were not supposed to use that money to build illegal
settlements in the occupied West Bank. and Gaza. But, that is precisely what they did since money is
fungible.
The second intifadah
is the result. This uprising and the brutal Israeli attempt to suppress it has
very much entered the consciousness of the Arab and Islamic masses. We are
guarantied their hatred. And let's have a little bit of honesty. The 17 sailors
who died on the USS Cole did not die for freedom or democracy, or to protect
our interests in the Middle East. They died because the Clinton/Gore team
became subservient (much more so than previous administrations) to the
ambitions of a ministate for a greater Israel. In other times Clinton and Gore
would have been branded as traitors.
I
did not vote for George W Bush, the lesser of two evils. I voted for Buchanan.