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Strategies & Market Trends : Strictly: Drilling II -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Frank Pembleton who wrote (4222)	11/19/2001 9:50:54 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36161

re: nice post and welcome to the group Thanks, and you're welcome. I'm always looking for threads and posters with a high signal/noise ratio. re: Where’s OBL moral authority? Americans are very sure they hold the moral high ground in this war. From what I've read, the rest of the world isn't so sure. Especially in the Poor World (new unpolitically correct name for the Third World), it's just seen as an ugly bit of power politics, just another turf war: the little guy tried to hurt the big guy, and now the big guy is smashing the little guy. That's how we are seen, in Brazil and Thailand, even somewhat in Japan and France, and most especially in Pakistan and Jordan. Everyone agrees that what OBL did was morally wrong, and no one has any sympathy with him. Very few people, even in Moslem countries, want the kind of future OBL wants. But, here's what people in Moslem countries see: "ethnic cleansing" by Israelis in Palestine, and American support for it. American soldiers/businessmen/pop stars here, there, everywhere, making Muslims powerless in their own countries. That's what they see, and they don't think we exercise any moral authority. Not saying it's an accurate view, but it is a widely held view, especially on the ground this war will be fought on.