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Article: Presidential candidates must debate Middle East in 2000
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- The Arab American News
- Article date:
- March 19, 1999
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Presidential candidates must debate Middle East in 2000
Absent an organized political intervention by an Arab American-led coalition in the 2000 U.S. presidential election, there will almost certainly be no substantive discussion of U.S. Middle East policy. The reason is not, as some might suggest, that the U.S. public has no interest in foreign affairs. And this silence is definitely not because U.S. Middle East policy is such a smashing success story. In fact, there has been a succession of largely unresolved crises issues in the Middle East that have consumed every U.S. administration and U.S. policy makers during the past 25 years. During that period, the United States has sent more ...