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To: Victor Lazlo who wrote (157551)	6/2/2003 11:41:45 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 164684

of course they matter but only if they want to matter, to the USA that is. You know Victor, kindof like when civil rights legislation was enacted on the south to save them from themselves. They didn't like it but nothing they could do... it was for their own good. Problem is, you can't apply that same principal to the world, because these are sovereign nations that are not in any way legislated by the US and our laws. So we can't really save the iraqis from Saddam Hussein unless they want us to do so. And there is most definitely a sense of animosity towards the soldiers there now (another few dead in the last week), as well as a definite uprising with an intent to install a cleric as president of an Iraqi muslim state. Not really what we had in mind, was it? The more I read about the middle east, the more I think there are 2 choices for leadership there- one is a hardline Cleric rule, the other a brutal tyrant. Iraq had the latter, now they will likely have the former I suspect. We'll see. The most ideal leadership from the wests perspective in all of the Arab nations imo is Syria, with a western educated moderate trying to control the cleric nutcases as best he can there. Of course we almost started a war with the guy (over something as worthless as the location of a bunch of former Iraqi baath party members like that information minister) so who knows how long he will last.