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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: FaultLine who wrote (30306)8/29/2002 9:54:48 PM
From: SirRealist  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
That's a very enlightening article, Ken. One part that he, and many, seem to overlook is that part of Bin Laden's hostility towards Saudi Arabia is not based in religion at all, but is a personal grudge.

As to the overall picture the article presented, while it provides much understanding of the Islamists, I have difficulties with this passage:

My comments are interjected in bold.

>>Once al Qaeda has been annihilated without sparking anti-American revolutions in the Islamic world, (he makes this sound as simple as peeling an orange) the United States should adopt a set of policies that ensure that significant numbers of Muslims -- not Muslim regimes but Muslims -- identify their own interests with those of the United States, so that demagogues like bin Laden cannot aspire to speak in the name of the entire umma.(Such as?) In 1991, millions of Iraqis constituted just such a reservoir of potential supporters, yet America turned its back on them. Washington had its reasons, but they were not the kind that can be justified in terms of the American values that we trumpet to the world. (The reasons were simple; the Arab allies made it a precondition.)Today we are paying a price for that hypocrisy. <<

Thanks for going to the trouble of posting that.
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