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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Alighieri who wrote (157267)1/2/2003 11:58:46 AM
From: hmaly  Read Replies (1) of 1582629
 
Alighieri Re..Iraq crisis reflects global US strategy
Mr Bush appears in no mood for compromise

<ggg> I see that my last response to you must have scared the hell out of you, as you posted this even before I could push the send button. Especially this part.

But a more high-minded ambition inspires some - that the United States should remake the whole Middle East in its own democratic image.

Those who see the policy in these terms have been labelled democratic imperialists - or fantasists by their opponents. After all, European attempts to redraw the map of the Middle East in the 20th Century were pretty disastrous.

George W Bush himself, it should be said, has in practice been cautious up to now. But the picture of Iraqis dancing in the streets as the Americans liberate Baghdad is a beguiling one.

That might indeed be the first reaction. But would it last? Do the visionaries in Washington really believe that a democratic Saudi Arabia would love America more?


Do the visionaries in Washington really believe that a democratic Saudi Arabia would love America more? Absolutely, that is the basis of GW's whole middle east policy; that democratic gov.s will transform all of the middle east, from a impoverished wasteland designed to breed terrorism to a middle class suburb in the desert.
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