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To: paul_philp who wrote (72454)	2/8/2003 5:41:19 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

<wet dream........change the balance of power in the region> Again, you are seeing the conflict as a conventional war, and using its yardsticks of success. You need a different model, different yardsticks. A U.S. colonization-by-proxy of Iraq (that's exactly what is being planned), will greatly increase the chance of anti-U.S. revolutions in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan. Even if we get a revolution in Iran, it will not be pro-U.S. The new regime will be moderate, Islamic, nationalist. They will not be our ally. And U.S. soldiers on their East and West borders will make us the main threat they see. A U.S. occupation of Iraq will make a Israeli-Palestinian treaty harder, not easier, to achieve. It will polarize the various parties, strengthening the extremists on both sides throughout the Middle East, and weakening the moderates.