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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (89808)	4/3/2003 11:41:45 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

But you missed two important factors that draws attention to US. Number one, West in general and US in particular has been instrumental in bringing those regimes to power. No, that's not true, who are you talking about? We didn't bring Nasser, Sadat or Mubarak to power in Egypt. We didn't bring the Ba'ath party to power in Iraq or Syria. We didn't set up Gaddafi in Libya. We didn't establish Ibn Saud in Saudi Arabia or Emir Faisal in Transjordan (that was the British India Office and Foreign Office, respectively). Secondly, US continues to have very cozy relationships with many of those leaders, despite all advertisement for democracy and freedom. Yes, the US has dealt with and supported the guys in place in the Arab world, chiefly in Egypt and Jordan. This is State's Arabist policy. It's changing now - that's what the critics don't get. Bjorn Staerk put it well, "on 9/11 Americans realized two things. One, the Middle East is deeply rotten. Two, their problems are now our problems."