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To: LindyBill who wrote (38438)	8/18/2002 4:09:28 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi LindyBill; Re: "I was thinking as I read that post from the Asian Times, and continue to read articles showing how the other Arab Countries are now looking for ways to appease us, that 9/11 changed everything!" The problem is that it is not the Arab Countries that are the terror problem, it's their citizens. Saudi Arabia is not a problem for us, the problem is the Saudi Arabians. What can we do to make the Arab Countries make their citizens quit hating us? Bombing the bejesus out of their cousins in Iraq will make (at least some of) the governments appease us, but it will just piss off the individuals the more (as Israel has proved over and over). Nor is there much that the Arab governments can do to make their citizens love us. The best we can hope for is for them to repress their more over the top religious leaders, but that tactic has not met with success in the past. The leaders are still leaders when they're in jail or abroad, but they become heroes as well. What we need to do is to raise the estimation of the United States among the Arab peoples. This is fairly easy to do. A hell of a lot of the natural heroes of the planet (i.e. athletes, scientists, businessmen, engineers, etc.) are American, or at least western. The talk by Hawking in China sold out to a full stadium. I have no doubt that having cultural exchanges like that improved the opinion of the West among the Chinese participants. -- Carl