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To: paul_philp who wrote (94691)	4/18/2003 8:21:20 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

Paul, I think you should read Barry Rubin's columns, I think Rubin is also trying to put his thoughts together. Here are the concluding paragraphs of his latest: So here, then, are the three key questions regarding the recent Iraqi war which will dominate the Middle East in the coming months and years: Will Iraqis unite to the extent needed to rebuild a stable, more democratic country? Or will their leaders demagogically exploit communal conflicts and anti-American sentiment, using the old ideology to create a new nightmare for that country? To what extent will Arabs rethink, or begin to rethink, a set of assumptions, policies and systems which are a continuous disaster for them because of what happened in Iraq? Even if this is not visible on the state-controlled surface, how much thinking will it reshape behind the scenes? To what extent will those in the West understand what the Iraq experience has told about their own misunderstandings of the region and, thus, the mistakes of their own policies? Beyond all the massive details, these are the issues confronting the Middle East and US policy today and that will shape the region's fate in the 21st century. jpost.com