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To: Keith Monahan who wrote (5826)	10/17/2001 2:41:58 PM
From: HH	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Re: Saudi comments that our mid east foreign policy is to blame..... are they saying the foreign policy whereby we rescued Kuwait and saved their sorry butts is why we got atacked? HH

To: Keith Monahan who wrote (5826)	10/17/2001 4:40:13 PM
From: FaultLine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Any talk of democracy in Saudi Arabia really misses the point - nobody there cares about it. During the Gulf War, the Palestinian engineer I worked with was a big Saddam fan. My co-worker strongly believed that the "Arab way" was to be governed by a strong-man type of government and that Saddam was the man to unify the Arab world to its rightful place of world power (yes, including scooping up all the oil fields and developing nuclear weapons). If indeed this is the prevailing opinion held by the average arab, then democracy is not on their things-to-do list. --fl