if BILL CLINTON was still in the white house , would we now have a ceasefire in the middle east?

Question

cant help but think , that clinton would have handled this crisis better, for one he would have involved all parties, and would have had the common sense to realize that the only way to stop a war is to talk to your enemy, not your friends

Answer 1

I have been reading the answers that you have received and I find it very disturbing that these people call themselves Americans. First of all Clinton was a man that all the other countries admired because he could talk to all of them with diplomacy and tact. The people answering you seem to equate that with a weakness. They will never understand that invading Iraq a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 set in motion a string of events that we may never recover from All they say is KILL the terrorists but we created more by the actions of GWB then there were before. Clinton would have at this point- a cease fire in place- with negotiations going on. GWB has chosen to sit back until Israel does what it set out to do( and I am with the Israelis on this fighting) but for a country like ours to turn our backs on this instead of taking the lead and forcing them to negotiate only makes us more enemies. This is a very sad time for America and for the first time I am actually embarrassed to be lumped in with all these idiots who think GWB is right, because weather of not I back him the rest of the world sees guilt by association, And God Weeps!!

Answer 2

Clinton tried in the middle east. But he made the mistake of trusting Arafat. They gave Arafat pretty much everything the Palestinians had asked for but he still wouldnt say yes to a treaty. He had no intentions of it. You cannot treat non-states like they are states. They take all of the advantages, but take none of the responsibilities. I know Clinton would support Israel, but I suspect he would do it in a way that would also support the terrorists of Hezbollah. Since their only issue is the violent overthrow of Israel, sometimes showing support to both sides isnt the right thing to do.

Clinton botched Somalia and watched the horrors of Rwanda and did nothing. I think you are romanticizing a bit. He was not gifted in foreign policy.

Answer 3

Clinton would have apologized for making the IDIOT Islamo-facists kill Americans and Israelis.... then he would have given them a lot of YOUR tax dollars in a useless effort to appease them. Clinton="teets on a boar". He would have been chasing Monica's fat rear around the White House.

Neither Democrats or Republicans have the spine to fight a war in a way that is necessary to bring it to a successful winning conclusion. They are too damn worried about political correctness.... and.... offending someone or something.

War is very offensive, very pornographic, and dangerous.... but, you cannot appease radical facists who think they are fighting for a god... no matter what you do, they want you DEAD.

The Islamo-facists of today are doing a dead man's bidding(Mohammed). They DO NOT think for themselves, they are no better than socialists and communists. If you are not a follower of Islam, they want YOU dead! No amount of talk will change that, erradication will.

As for involving all parties, that is a waste of time and tax payer money.... too many of those involved parties are against Israel and the USA.... it only takes a look at the defunct/worthless UN voting to realize that.

Answer 4

Clinton didn't have a real Crisis in his term so how do you know he would properly handle one? He didn't have the brass anyway. Just look how he lied about everything. If that isn't chickensh**, I don't know what is! Why do you think the terrorists were learning to fly the planes for the seven yrs. prior to this administration? Because Clinton was always thinking with the other head & made a mockery of the US in the process!

Answer 5

Yeah, there would be a ceasefire so that Hezbollah could get stronger and stronger and strap more bombs to children to carry out suicide bombings.

Seems as though you miss the point. This conflict between Israel and Hezbollah is a part of the war on terror, just as the war in Iraq is.

Hezbollah has been around since the 1980s. They stem from the group that took Americans hostage in 1979/1980. See, Hezbollah is not only an enemy of Israel, but is also an enemy of the United States.

Yes, this has been going on for decades, but we are now in the GLOBAL War on Terror. Our focus is on dealing with terrorist groups and eliminating them. If Israel is successful in eliminating Hezbollah, I see that as a victory for Israel AND for the rest of the free world.

Why does cowardly Hezbollah fighters hide among the Lebanese refugees?

P.S. You cannot talk to Hezbollah. They are radical terrorists. Study history.

Answer 6

We would because Clinton was/is an intelligent person who got people to sit down at a table and talk. If he were still President - or Al Gore or John Kerry for that matter - diplomacy would be at work - not bombs and missles. The nutcase/stooge/fool that is president now has no idea about diplomacy and how it works until Cheney tells him what it is. Then Bush barks once if he understands, twice if he doesn't. But, some of the American people actually elected the idiot we have in charge now, so we're stuck with bombs and missles killing innocent people.

Answer 7

What made Bill Clinton such a great leader for our country was a combination of MANY factors; here are but a few that I consider to be his greatest assets:

He has a brilliant mind (in addition to plenty of good, old-fashioned COMMON SENSE!), genuine compassion for ALL types of people, and a deep concern for EVERYONE'S future. He was not only our greatest president in modern history, he was also our greatest "ambassador" for world peace. If ANYONE could appeal to those lunatics over there & stop the insanity, it would be PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON!!!

In contrast, this jackass we got in office now.... I think all HE is managing to do is incite more wrath upon the United States of America!

Answer 8

Probably not. But we wouldn't be in Iraq either. So who knows? No point speculating on what might have been.
P.S.
Anyone who thinks that the US would be overrun by an army of terrorists if anybody but Bush was in office is seriously off their rocker. Are you so brainwashed that you think a democrat president doesn't want to protect his country.
You all are just as bad, if not worse, than the leftist nutjobs. You both make up about 2% of your party but scream and complain louder than the other, resonable 98%.

Answer 9

Bill is The Man! He handled Saddam with extreme skill and prudence for 8 years. Never was an American life in danger in Iraq under Bill. We need another Clinton, QUICK. But not Hillary!!! She's scary! Yikes!!

Answer 10

well it really doesnt matter who is the leader of US...because to me the American are still with the Israelian sides....no matter whos the president is they will always support their closest brother the freakin Israelis.....this plan for destroying the whole Middle East country might have been planed a long time ago but we as the people just couldnt see it....and also all the west news like CNN is not a news that we could trust about this situation...they're just giving their point of view only...not to think about what the world are thinking....another Propaganda by this big west power rite???