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To: E who wrote (21577)	3/17/2002 4:56:57 PM
From: frankw1900	Read Replies (1) of 281500

...it would allow our infidel military to be withdrawn from the Islamic holy land of Saudi Arabia, which presence is possibly the bitterest obstacle to any improvement in US/Muslim relations. It's a bitter thing for the islamist fundamentalists. Is it a bitter thing for most muslims? Even for a majority in Saudi Arabia? It's fundamentalists who launched 9/11. It's they who want to establish a caliphate stretching from north Africa to Indonesia. They want to remove the modern world from all of it and just keep its toys. If the US leaves Saudi for some nearby place it will become the islamist goal then to chase it from there. This is why they felt the US withdrawal from Somalia was so important. As for the Iraqi oil, it's probably a non starter in these calculations. At least, it ought to be. Having a secure, secular base in the region is attractive but mounting a war just for that end is extravagant. What would be the larger end - the long term purpose it supports? I think the theory you posted raises some interesting questions.

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