Gerhard Schroder Quotes
This question about Iraq has gotten personal.
Schröder, Gerhard. Interview. Der Spiegel, 2002.
The Arab Countries are notoriously corrupt and undemocratic. Huge amounts of national resources are looted by the politicians in power and their supporters. Before Israel existed, the Jews and Arabs of Palestine both had a standard of living that was considerably less than that of Egypt. The Palestinians under the Palestine authority after 50 years have a standard of living that is still less than that of Egypt. But the Israeli citizens have a standard of living that is now far greater then the other Palestinians, but many times greater than Egypt. And that goes for the Israeli Arabs living in a free democracy also; they too are far better off than their non democratic co-religionists. See {588744}.
Al-Alusi attended an anti-terrorism conference in Israel. He was arrested by conservatives who cited a law passed under the Hussein regime prohibiting any contact with Israelis. However, he was immediately released citing the new freedom of Iraqis to travel anywhere they want and meet with whomever they want.
There were really no American national interests involved in the Civil War in Lebanon. A conservative like Reagan could simply withdraw while if a liberal Democrat did the same thing, he would be castigated by the right for showing weakness and inviting attacks on our diplomats, troops, and citizens all over the world. There were a few ultra conservatives who objected to Reagan’s decision and several, decades later, blamed this “weakness” as the facilitator of subsequent terrorist attacks on our embassies, and even 9-11.
Paul tended to be one of the very few Republicans who did not favor American intervention in Syria.
Gerhard Fritz Kurt Schröder is a German politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005, during which his most important political initiative was Agenda 2010. As a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), he led a coalition government of the SPD and the Greens. Schröder has been chairman of Russian energy company Rosneft since 2017.
