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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry

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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (78073)	7/14/2006 3:31:13 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) of 81568

>>The Ottoman Empire had long been the sick man of Europe. Its lands were weak with long misrule. It fell apart after WWI because the Turks had chosen the German side. ALL the lands of the Middle East were carved up and handed over to SOMEBODY, and that somebody was generally from outside. To leave it to the purely inside forces would have been to leave it to anarchy. until some stronger tribe conquered the others.<< Nadine - Well of course, the Europeans and Americans knew best, and couldn't leave the Arabs to themselves. Not with all that oil at stake. Let's get some historical context here. If not for the oil, we Westerners would have been content to let the Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds and everybody else in the area beat each other senseless for all eternity. - Allen

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