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To: sea_urchin who wrote (12163)	9/22/2001 7:16:47 PM
From: Alan Whirlwind	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81932

Well Searle, the biggest mistake they ever made was the Long Term Capital Management bailout. Now what can they do after bailing out lame millionaires? I don't feel too sorry for the Arabs/Palestinians. Israel was much smaller than it is now when it first began. But the countries around it attacked in 1948, 1967, and 1973. Each time Israel won and partitioned new lands to its country. Can hardly blame a country from gaining from wars it didn't start but happened to win. In all of this, the Arab countries, particulartly the rich ones, did squat to help the Palestinians in their refugee camps. It was too handy to have them suffering there for propaganda's sake. Just like Saddam allowing his people to go hungry while he rearms and builds new palaces in his honor on oil money that was never entirely cut off from Iraq since to protect the pipelines, the oil had to continue flowing to a certain degree.. If there is a genuine beef, fine. But when these countries prosecute decades of stupidity, I don't have much sympathy. I do agree with you about the Kurds. We allowed Saddam to remain solely because the Turks wanted him as a buffer against the Kurds overthrowing the Iraqi government and declaring a Kurd nation which would encourage the Kurds fighting the Turks for homeland space.