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Pastimes : Clown-Free Zone... sorry, no clowns allowed

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To: marginmike who wrote (128103)10/8/2001 12:20:59 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu  Read Replies (1) of 436258
 
There is something wrong with Saudi Arabia citing U.S.
support for Israel as the root cause for this Islamist terror —
when many Saudi men were among the hijackers, when the
Saudi regime has tolerated the harsh Islamist movements that
provided ideological guidance for these young men, when
Saudi Arabia was the biggest funder of the Taliban,
when the
Saudi ruling family has alienated some of its most devout
subjects to a degree that produced Islamist militancy, and
when the Saudi regime — as The Economist just noted, in an
article titled "Saudi Arabia: The Double-Act Wears Thin" —
winked at indirect fund-raising for Mr. bin Laden in the
Kingdom as a way of currying favor with its hard-line Islamist
critics.


I don't want to see the Saudi regime destabilized. I'm sure it
wants to be part of the solution now. But how about a little
candor? YES, America should look deeper into its policies
and actions — BUT, BUT, BUT we're not the only ones who
need to look in the mirror.

nytimes.com
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