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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (51330)	10/12/2002 12:13:48 AM
From: jcky	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

You have a short memory, if you have forgotten 240 dead Marines in Beirut. Not quite. Hizbullah's attack of American soldiers in Beirut were within the context of a perceived occupation by American soldiers in their back yard. Again, you have taken Hizbullah's action out of context within the Lebanon war. Americans had no business sending troops into Lebanon to safeguard Israel's misguided, miscalculated, and misplaced foreign policy of pre-emptive strike and regime change in Lebanon. A better question is whether Hizbullah has deliberately targeted any Americans after we pulled out of Lebanon. And you already know what that answer is. The US gets close cooperation from Israel and takes it for granted; it hardly gets time of day from the Egyptians, who are getting nearly as much. Excuse me, Nadine, but the Egyptians are getting foreign aid from American taxpayers as part of an economic package (big carrot) to maintain peace with the Israelis. One of the prime beneficiaries of American foreign aid to Egypt are still the Israelis. Which part don't you understand? Why doesn't the US government just withhold Egyptian foreign aid and let's determine if there will be an increase of terrorist activities directed against Israel from within Egypt.