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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (67590)	1/22/2003 1:21:11 AM
From: paul_philp	Respond to of 281500

Nadine, Wow, great piece from Friedman. It was a bit of a relief. We have become so caught up in the WMD argument, inspections and the UN that I don't see the real argument for attacking Iraq made very often. Of course, the other shoe drops on Sunday. If we don't help transform these Arab states — which are also experiencing population explosions — to create better governance, to build more open and productive economies, to empower their women and to develop responsible media that won't blame all their ills on others, we will never begin to see the political, educational and religious reformations they need to shrink their output of undeterrables. He puts a little poetry into my anti-mediocrity argument: We will not leave you alone anymore to play with matches, because the last time you did, we got burned. Paul