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Entry: Taki's Mideast Peace Plan Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/takis_mideast_peace_plan#3294 Post contents: Dear Taki, There are so many problems with your article that it’s hard to know where to begin. You have indeed become a Wilsonian, a very naïve one at that. Meddling in the Middle East for the last sixty odd years is what has gotten the United States into this mess. In your estimation, what we need is more meddling! All the US has to do is: read the riot act to Israel’s right wing, force the only democracy in the Middle East to revert to its 1967 borders, swap lands equal in size and quality to ensure territorial contiguity for both Israelis and Palestinians, and then, finally, ignore the provocations and terrorist acts by both sides until a viable independent Palestinian state is born. Most important of all is for Bush to use the stick where settlement activity is concerned. Is that all Taki? Here’s a much more modest proposal that requires no sticks, carrots or muscle flexing, “Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.” So simply put, the US should get out of the Middle East, stop giving Israel billions in aid per annum, and otherwise stop pretending that it has any right to tell other people how to live their lives. And while we’re at it, why the old neocon saw that the US can’t pull out now because it will only get worse? Taki, you cannot know what will happen if the US pulls out unless you have a very good crystal ball. Maybe things would get worse or maybe they would get better. I do know for certain that US soldiers would stop being maimed and killed. What a strange article from someone who usually sounds like he is of the Old Right. Respectfully, John McKerrow Sent at: 2008 07 06