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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (79954)	3/6/2003 3:10:00 PM
From: paul_philp	Respond to of 281500

Jerusalem is another non-Core issue which can be finessed easily. Agree it is non-core but it is a propaganda problem - America is desicrating the loving memory of Muhammed and now OBL wants you. Once the Arabs give up on the Right of Return, once they accept the idea of a Jewish State permanently in the Middle East, then everything else will be easily negotiated True. Jordan would be a lot happier as a US client state, than as a Syrian client state, and that's the real choice for them. Lebanon, too. I'm going to stick with Free Trade Networks rather than statehood. I hoped that Turkey would be the first AMEFTA country. The reason the US, IMO, was willing to offer so much financially to Turkey is that they don't want Turkey's economy to fall deeper into it's current recession. Since it wont be Turkey, I think Jordan should be the first member of AMEFTA (after Isreal). I suspect that the 'new world order' will start to look like 'free trade networks' soon. Centralized management doesn't work on networks. Soon the US will go from being a SuperPower to being a SuperNode. (it already is and the short form of 'free trade networks' is globalization but the 'free', 'trade' and 'governance' of the network is very weak. The UN is the mainframe in TRON. Paul