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To: JEB who wrote (288111)	8/19/2002 1:03:39 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Thanks for the update. That's quite interesting. I still believe that if Democratic governments reigned from Turkey, through Iraq... and later in Iran and Afghanistan, that the Monarchies in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait would ultimately be threatened by the democratic aspirations of their peoples. Also, of course, purely autocratic societies such as Syria would find themselves between a rock and a hard place. In the Rand corp. briefing given at the Pentagon a few weeks ago (much reported in the Press), which briefing identified Saudi Arabia as an enemy of America, the power point pointed to Saudi Arabia as a society that would be threatened by the advent of Democracy in Iraq... and also pointed to Egypt as the 'ultimate prize' in the Middle East for democratic societal change. I fail to see how the ruling elites in Kuwait could resist such a historical imperative: the march of Democracy across the entire region.