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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (111137)	10/24/2000 11:43:02 PM
From: Sarmad Y. Hermiz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

>> ? What do you believe causes such type behavior? Leaders of countries behave like thugs, unfortunately. >> Do you believe it would be possible for the Mid East to use some of that revenue from the sale of oil to build schools? If they did that, maybe there would be some biotech firms there, etc. That is a distant prospect. Oil wealth seems more of a curse than blessing. None of the oil-rich countries have used their money in a wise way. But regarding schools, one of the items the US prohibits selling to Iraq is school text books. And it also used to prohibit selling pencils, under the guise that the graphite in pencils can be melted and used to make atom bombs. A jordanian group then bought one million pencils and trucked them to Iraq at the start of the school year. Anyway, the whole US mideast policy is crumbling.