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To: t2 who wrote (62163)	10/25/2002 8:28:58 AM
From: RetiredNow	Respond to of 77400

OTOT We'll need a few more millenia, not years. Now I'm about to depart from my usual stance of defending the U.S. on most points. One of the biggest problems standing in the way of the Middle East forming democracies is that they have been artifically retarded politically by their governing royalty, like the House of Saud. The problem has been exacerbated by first British and then American support for these ruling princes. If the U.K. and the U.S. withrdrew all support from the House of Saud and all other autocracies, dictatorship, non-democratically elected governments in the region, then and only then will there be the true posibility of a revolution or maybe even peaceful change towards democracy. Unfortunately, the U.S. won't withdraw that support because that would cause the mother of all oil price spikes, which will throw the whole world into recession and cost the presidential administration their jobs. That means that the ruling royalty still get money and power to keep oppressing the masses. So it's a pretty uneven fight. But then again, the first Americans had very little and we fought down the better equipped and trained British army in our own fight for independence. So it can be done. However, all those Arabs that want independence surely will never get support from the west by murdering our civilians. Keep that up and they are guaranteeing themselves another thousand years of oppression.