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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: MSI who wrote (238732)3/16/2002 10:51:00 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston  Read Replies (2) of 769670
 
Countries run by dictators/Kings/Sultans/Mullahs have unique problems. Despots are not run out of office by social failures. Neither can they easily abdicate and remain in country (or alive). Instead they control the oppressed by controlling the press and feeding them a story of who their oppressors are and letting them rage out of country. They are an accomplice by funding and implicitly sympathetic by lack of criticism. None of this is overt but I think we understand the thinking. They care little about Israel or the Palestinians except if their natives get restless and affect the stability of their regime. The decline of their countries is witness to their corruption, not ours.

I think much of our posturing about evil and nuclear weaponry is meant to get the rest of the world's attention and their interest and cooperation in getting rid of terrorism. If they are not interested in "getting pregnant" about this, if they have no motivation to share the responsibility, then we will have to have alternate plans.
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