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To: re3 who wrote (149169)	10/24/2002 9:29:59 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 164684

<"War you wanted, war you want? Good. As far as I am concerned, war it is and war it will be. Until the last breath," she writes.> She sounds like she is qualified to be one of Bob's "negotiators".

To: re3 who wrote (149169)	10/24/2002 9:31:35 AM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

retired, for an alternate view, that it is not a clash of cultures or backlash against policies of the west/US as much as internal political struggles and tactics of distraction, try this article from the latest issue of Foreign Affairs: The Real Roots of Arab Anti-Americanism by Barry Rubin From Foreign Affairs, November/December 2002 Barry Rubin is Director of the Global Research in International Affairs Center and Editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs. His latest books are The Tragedy of the Middle East and Anti-American Terrorism and the Middle East. DAMN YANKEES Since last year's attacks on New York and Washington, the conventional wisdom about the motivation behind such deadly terrorism has gelled. The violence, we are often told, was a reaction to misguided U.S. policies. For years, certain American actions -- such as the country's support for Israel and for unpopular, oppressive Arab regimes -- had supposedly produced profound grievances throughout the Middle East. Those grievances came to a boil over time, and finally spilled over on September 11. The result was more than 3,000 American deaths. Although anti-Americanism is genuinely widespread among Arab governments and peoples, however, there is something seriously misleading in this account. Arab and Muslim hatred of the United States is not just, or even mainly, a response to actual U.S. policies -- policies that, if anything, have been remarkably pro-Arab and pro-Muslim over the years. Rather, such animus is largely the product of self-interested manipulation by various groups within Arab society, groups that use anti-Americanism as a foil to distract public attention from other, far more serious problems within those societies. This distinction should have a profound impact on American policymakers. If Arab anti-Americanism turns out to be grounded in domestic maneuvering rather than American misdeeds, neither launching a public relations campaign nor changing Washington's policies will affect it. In fact, if the United States tries to prove to the Arab world that its intentions are nonthreatening, it could end up making matters even worse. New American attempts at appeasement would only show radicals in the Middle East that their anti-American strategy has succeeded and is the best way to win concessions from the world's sole superpower. Full Article: foreignaffairs.org