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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (44827)	10/20/2003 4:05:36 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

What a distance we have covered from the wish list of Derek posted on 911-2002;; DLong post. Saudi have announced half measure elections and war on terror is in full swing, military actions in North of PAKISTAN AND IN HEART OF Saudi HINTERLAND ARE DAILY OCCURENCES, without a coherent policy to face the challenge and lift the gauntlet this could not be possible. Half way measures add up to nothing in the Arab world. That was the hallmark of Clinton era, appeasement of the street a street that remained averse to the changes of the world and is in search of lost glory of the golden age of Islam that bypassed the nation of Islam since last 500 years with the fall of the bastion of the Ottomans and Spaniard Islamic kingdom of Granada. One element was common than and now their insistence on medievalism than and now and the conspiracy theory that the world is against them, the reawakening to the world of reality from ‘Rip van winkle’ a sleep of the Islamic nation is the best shock therapy… the changes in mind will only come with the shocks.. <And the perpetrators of 9/11 were funded and trained from the Middle East and Afghanistan. Why are Arabs angry? Because they are poor, disenfranchised, unemployed, and undereducated while their despot rulers live in luxury? Are they angry because of an Israeli/Palestinian fire which is fanned by extremist groups funded and encouraged from the capitals of Arabia? Are they angry with the US as much for our support of THEIR leaders, as Israel's? Drain the swamp. Eliminate the source of Arab poverty, disenfranchisement, and backwardness - their own governments. Eliminate the source of funding and support for extremist groups and policies which make a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian problem impossible - Arab regimes. Instill the fear of US power - destroy the regime of Saddam Hussein. Instill hope for something more and better for your children than a Shaheed's belt - rebuild Iraq into a thriving, inclusive, market oriented republic. Encourage, fund, enable, support Iranian reformist dissidents to do away with the mullahs. Watch how quickly the problem of Palestine could be solved without Arab instigation money flowing into HAMAS, FATAH and Hezbollah's coffers. If terror doesn't pay, peace will have a chance. That is what they thrive on, what will give them more recruits and more donations. We seem quite determined to give it to them. Better to confront it now, then stick our heads into the sand and hope it will go away. The Arabs have had 50 years of independence and an embarrassment of riches with which to do well by themselves. Their rulers have chosen to squander that on palaces and wars with each other and Israel. They are angry with us doing nothing. Might as well get the pain over with and do something. Im going to get flamed for that. But that's my opinion. Derek >