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To: hueyone who wrote (61877)	10/15/2002 12:23:26 AM
From: Tom D	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 77400

OT I don't know. You are proposing hypothetically that the U.S. and Israel leave the Middle East? And I suppose we theoretically also remove British, French and Russian influences. I guess your point is that the U.S. and Israel are stabilizing influences in the region. I have not studied Middle Eastern politics and history to be able to formulate an opinion about this. My father worked for a company that exported machinery to oil refineries and petrochemical factories in many of these countries. For him, studying Middle Eastern relations was something of a hobby, but he always said that the politics was enormously complicated. Maybe there are some people on the thread who can offer an informed opinion. I do find it interesting that George H Bush did not want to oust Saddam and create a power vacuum in Iraq. If the U.S. does go in and conquer Iraq, the subsequent nation building and heightened tensions with Arabian countries would seem to pose mind-boggling challenges. Tom