ROME -- Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich this week moved a step further toward casting himself as the conservative alternative to Sen. John McCain in a possible run for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. In an impromptu speech during a Mediterranean cruise that hosted scores of conservative donors and activists, the Georgia Republican expressed unexpected skepticism about prospects of military intervention to halt Iran's nuclear program.
"I am opposed to a military strike on Iran because I don't think it accomplishes very much in the long run," said Mr. Gingrich, who supported the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and has been a strong defender of Israel. "I think if this regime [in Iran] is so dangerous that we can't afford to let them have nuclear weapons, we need a strategy to replace the regime," Mr. Gingrich said. "And the first place you start is where Ronald Reagan did in Eastern Europe with a comprehensive strategy that relied on economic, political, diplomatic, information and intelligence" means.
The statement represented a significant modification of one of his most hawkish foreign-policy views.
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Good for Gingritch. But does he know what he advises. I was in East Europe during the Reagan Era. Specifically in Romania, because he allowed Romanian Jews to emigrate to Israel, Ceausescu was granted favorite nation status, which meant duty free goods to be sold to US. That left the Romanians as slave labor and the NEOCONS invested a lot of clothes manufacture by Romanian slaves, putting American Seamstesses out of their jobs. It didn't help overthrow Romania, but is was very profitable slave-business for the NEOCONS while Romanian Jews were allowed out to Israel. For that, Reagan sent his Vice President Bush to hug and kiss Ceausescu, which all Romanians saw on TV to great depression. I can just see Cheney now following the Newt Policy. But hey, what else can we do , given how dumb we have been up to now!
Daniel E. Teodoru
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