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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR

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To: PartyTime who started this subject	1/22/2003 8:35:14 PM
From: 2MAR$	of 25898

Arab impotence in the face of war atimes.com In the backstages of the Arab world, many keep urging the lost-in-space leaders of the other 21 members of the Arab League (apart from Iraq) to immediately convene an emergency session and then personally deliver the message to Saddam Hussein: he has to go and so spare the long-suffering Iraqi population a new apocalypse. Still, everyone knows that Saddam will never take the sad, long and winding road already chosen by the Shah of Iran, Ferdinand Marcos and Idi Amin. Rumors disseminated by American allies still persist: Saddam has been sending fortunes to self-styled African leader of the future, Muammar Gaddafi; but a Libyan exile would never fit Saddam's control-freak personality, considering the extreme volatility of Gaddafi's alliances. ***** Arab populations everywhere know that they are basically repressed and in most cases devastatingly misruled. The triumph-of-the-human-spirit part is how they manage to go on surviving in such adverse circumstances - something that can be attested in the ultra-noisy, ultra-polluted streets and slums of Cairo. "Arab street" may be an empty slogan concocted by mediocre Orientalists, but the street knows all about the silence and impotence of their governments, and the deep, terrible ramifications of the impeding "barbarians at the gate" blitzkrieg in the region, as a Cairo political scientist put it.

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