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To: JohnM who wrote (41354)	9/1/2002 12:24:29 PM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

To address the points one by one: 1. Better to be jerked around by an Arab, than a Jew? Arafat has jerked us around for near 30 years. Hasn't gotten us anywhere. I hear alot about "dealing with Palestine first" and then everything will be hunky dory. The problem isn't the Palestinians, the problem is the Arab regimes using the Palestinians as pawns to distract their own populace, and the West, from looking at THEM. Arab anger starts at home, not in Jerusalem. 2. Let's solve the disease, not the symptoms, John. 3. Who is the target of our efforts? Al Qaeda? bin Laden is regarded not as a terrorist, but as an altruistic defender of downtrodden Muslims. Is it other organizations under that umbrella? The Muslim Brotherhood, or Hezbollah or HAMAS, who buy the Arab Streets' love with extensive social support networks and sympathy as the defenders of downtrodden muslims? The most dangerous of our enemies are the very enemies those we wish to help revere. You won't defeat them by trying to convince the Arab street they are really bad, bad, bad, men. As far as I see, the best means to defeating them is providing an alternative both to the terrorist networks and the regimes the terrorist networks are supported by and wish to supplant. 4. I don't do seminars. ;P Derek