Here are some words and, thoughts to ponder on the issues of the day from one of the I-A-N Board Members......


When a nation is attacked by terrorists who are given safe haven by another nation, what are they supposed to do? Should they negotiate to get that other nation to put a stop to the activity? Should they go into that country and try to eradicate the terrorists? It depends on whom you ask. If you are asking leaders of a country who have done the latter, the United States for example, and have supported it for its allies, as in the case of Israel invading Lebanon, then they probably would recommend incursion. It gets a little sticky when the country currently being attacked is Turkey and the country they want to invade is Iraq, which the U.S. is now occupying. Everyone who supported the U.S. invasion of Iraq and Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, must get behind the Turkish parliament’s call for military action in northern Iraq. Remember your phrases like, “better to fight them over there than here.” The chickens have come home to roost.

jim sutherland