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To: tekboy who wrote (62438)	12/20/2002 11:35:32 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

some pieces from the new issue of FA to sink your teeth into... Thanks. The printer is chugging away as I type. I checked the link to the table of contents and spotted the Doran essay. Any chance we could get a link to the full text of that one as well. Sigh, always greedy.

To: tekboy who wrote (62438)	12/21/2002 6:23:53 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Iraq and the Arabs' Future, by Fouad Ajami foreignaffairs.org What a magnificent, magnificent, Article. I like everything I have read by Ajami, but he outdid himself on this one. Where to start? The whole article is outstanding. I was struck by this line. America ought to be able to live with this distrust and discount a good deal of this anti-Americanism as the "road rage" of a thwarted Arab world -- the congenital condition of a culture yet to take full responsibility for its self-inflicted wounds Yes! This constant refrain about bending our actions to pacify the "Arab Street" should not be listened to. We will never be loved over there. Not in the foreseeable future, no matter what we do. The other thing that struck me was when Ajami pointed out that the more money we have given the Egyptians, the more they dislike us. One outcome of this War we are in should be a change in the way we deal with Egypt. My thinking turned in another direction after reading the Article. What is going to happen in this country if we are totally successful in ousting Saddam next year? What if we are greeted in the streets of Baghdad by cheering crowds, and we do find hidden stocks of WMDs? First off, the Anti-War protesters in this country will be totally cut off from support. They will still be out there, grumbling, but no longer a factor. And the Neocons that are derided for their arrogance will be riding high. Real high. So high that we will need slaves to follow their parading chariots and whisper in their ears. Could be a real problem.