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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Dayuhan who wrote (38378)8/18/2002 2:40:03 AM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
We can easily install new governments in these countries. It will be much more difficult to install stable governments capable of sustaining themselves without constant US support.

How is that any different than the current situation where Arab governments are only stabilized because of the past 12 years of US presence which has kept Saddam and other regimes at bay??? (or the $2 Billion in aid we provide the Egypt).

We cannot sustain an indefinite military occupation of the entire Islamic world, or even a significant portion of it.

But isn't that what we've effectively been doing for the past 12 years, although we call it "containment"??

And isn't the long-standing US presence in Saudi Arabia one of the major sources of contention that Bin Laden was able to use in formenting Anti-American sentiment??

US troops will not be there for more than 4-5 years in any great number if we do what's required, an economic transformation of the middle east that creates opportunity to replace the despair that currently pervades the region (driven by demographics).

We're damned if we do and damned if we don't. But at least by doing something directly, we have a chance of deciding the outcome, rather than waiting for the inevitable.

Hawk
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