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To: zonder who wrote (55917)	11/6/2002 7:52:41 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

>>Hasn't anyone told you that the US saved Kuwait from Iraq because they have oil better controlled by the US than Iraq? . . . . Saving Kuwait from Iraq is a pro-Arab policy? Please... That must be why the Kuwaitis are so grateful to Americans:<< No matter what the US does, you think it's evil. Fine. I am not going to contribute any further to thread bloat.

To: zonder who wrote (55917)	11/6/2002 8:19:38 AM
From: epsteinbd	Respond to of 281500

And where was the oil in Sumalia, or Haïti, not to mention Kosovo ?

To: zonder who wrote (55917)	11/6/2002 1:24:22 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Or do you believe that it was for the purest humanitarian motives that the US "saved" Kuwait? No, why should we apologize for acting in our own interests? But it hardly means that our policy was "anti-Arab". Who introduced the rule, "it doesn't count as pro-anybody unless you act for the purest humanitarian motives"? That must be why the Kuwaitis are so grateful to Americans Ask the Kuwaitis if they would rather have been left to Saddam's mercies. A couple of young idiots catching the Islamist nonsense does not mean that the Kuwaitis as a whole have forgotten Iraqi occupation, or would like to repeat it. Are you not familiar with the story of Bosnia, another Muslim country whose population underwent genocide while the US did nothing? Very familiar. As I recall, there was a long period in which the Europeans told us, back off, this is on our doorstep, we'll handle it. And we had no interests there. So we backed off, and Europe did nothing while Sarajevo was destroyed. Finally we acted, too late it's true, on behalf of Kosovo, where we also had no interests, and installed a peace which we patrol to this day. Tell me, who has less to boast of there, Europe or America?