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To: HG who wrote (2573)	10/11/2002 7:45:37 AM
From: Poet	Respond to of 7689

Good morning HG: I just heard that Jimmy Carter got the Nobel Peace Prize. Congrats to him. I agree with you that Iraq is a more easily vanquished enemy and very likely less of a threat than Saudi Arabia. I don't think we have realized just how much Saudi can -- and likely will-- threaten us. Glad you got those taxes off your back. My husband does ours and I swear they take three years off his life each April.

To: HG who wrote (2573)	10/11/2002 10:49:27 AM
From: Original Mad Dog	Respond to of 7689

I think sometimes if you deal harshly with a foe who has it coming, it has some effect on the next one who might cross you. I agree that Saudi is the bigger threat, and Pakistan too. It is somewhat distressing to see us cozying up to those regimes yet again. The Saudi regime may (pretend to) be our friend, but the Saudi people and their system clearly are not. They will likely be our biggest nemesis of the 21st century. I suspect that our government, to the extent it has a hidden agenda, wants to install a friendly regime next door to the Saudis (and Iran) so it will have a foothold in the region to deter the Saudis from trying anything foolish. Pakistan is a more difficult question. It is vastly more overpopulated than Saudi, much poorer, and a cauldron for the creation of violence. Add a viral religious tradition to the mix and even a rudimentary nuclear capability, and you have a problem. The real question is: should we NOT deal with Iraq because these other, longer term problems loom? Or maybe, will dealing with Iraq make those problems potentially easier to address down the road? It's impossible to say anything but "maybe" in response to that. There is a school of thought that says we should tread lightly on the Iraqs of the world to avoid angering these other populations. To which I say, they hate us anyway, and I'd rather they hated us and feared us rather than hating us and not fearing us.