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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (111785)	8/17/2003 11:57:20 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Hi Nadine Carroll; Re: "After Gulf War I and eight years of Clinton, the Middle East had ceased to believe in the credibility of America's big stick." Before, the Middle East thought that our big stick would be as ineffective as the Israeli big stick, as far as conquering Arab lands. Now they're certain of it. Before, the Middle East thought that we had enough of a stick that we could topple any local government we wanted to. Now they know that our stick is stuck in Iraq and therefore that we are toothless for the "foreseeable" future. The result, Iran is ignoring our requests that they not develop nukes or intervene in Iraq. Syria told us to go fish when we complained about their holding Iraqi criminals or WMDs, and Saudi Arabia is edging away from us. -- Carl

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