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To: neolib who wrote (223930)	3/13/2007 4:09:56 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) of 281500

I think Dubai and Qatar do pretty well. travel2.nytimes.com I see many prosperous upper middle class professional black families and many dirt poor subsistence white farmers and coal miners. What we keep seeing is a snapshot in time and think that reality is static. At some point China had a very well-developed and sophisticated civilization while Europe was mired in dirt and disease. Before Walmartization took hold last century, China looked poor while Europe looked like the height of modernization. IMO. These are just phases and we can only see the phase that our lifespan covers. I do think there are problems in parts of the world where the climate is so harsh that subsistence is about all that can be achieved without lots of high tech investment. Will this change with global warming? Maybe. Perhaps the Netherlands will end up being submerged in which case commerce will be very difficult. :) What really bothers me about Israel is that people keep tip toeing around the problem because of the Holocaust. While that may be quite PC, it doesn't help anyone least of all the Israelis who are reduced to killing 1100 people in Lebanon while failing to get back their troops OR make their citizens feel any safer. If we looked at it as essentially a fight over land claims, there might be a compromise in the making...or not. At least it would be a different argument because the current one has been going on now for several generations and things are just as bad as ever. If we keep dealing with it as a 'clash of civilizations' or as a religious or moral fight then all compromises look like 'giving in.' We should knock off the hyperventilating and bring in the negotiators, lawyers (egads), bankers and surveyors while leaving the priests at home.

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