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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (112061)	8/23/2003 7:03:32 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<A good comparison for the war against terror is the war against piracy that went on in European and American waters for much of the 17th, 18th and early 19th century. In the 19th century, the European powers were stronger and decided, enough is enough, and went after the Barbery States that shielded the pirates, and made piracy too expensive to be profitable.> Actually that is a counter-example. We depend on mideast oil. The Islamists or whatever you prefer to call them are making it more expensive for us to rely on mideast oil. The Arab states that shield us cannot afford to do so if their own populations go crazy in them -- and we are doing our part to make them crazy.