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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (89761)	4/3/2003 9:30:12 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The biggest supporter of you call "local tyrant" is the US without whom most of them would not last a year. It should not surprise you that the animosity robs off. So the masses may like to tell themselves. But it's not true. If there is one solitary thing that Arab leaders are very good at, it's lasting in power. Have Gaddafi and Assad lasted in power only due to US support, for instance? One must really look deeper than this alliance or that for explanations as to how so many deeply unpopular leaders manage to keep a grip on power so long. Iran stopped being overtly anti-American long ago. Which incidentally was when the people decided they were safe from American control. Not true again, the mullahs remain anti-American. They have just caused the population to move the other way. The real crux of the matter is that no Arab population (Iranians too) feel that they have a real stake in their government. Yet they cannot overthrow them either. So they look for someone to blame.