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To: Chas. who wrote (119223)	11/11/2003 1:23:49 PM
From: Jim Willie CB	Respond to of 281500

you might underestimate the resentment among Saudi citizens their standard of living (income) has dropped over 60% since 1980 they have huge unemployment, over 20% princes hire Pakistanis, Philipinos, Egyptians not locals local schools are essentially fundamentalist breeding grounds extortion of money from royals is commonplace charitable agencies are widespread, gathering money Wahabbis are gaining huge ground, disagree with you you vastly underestimate, I believe as I said before, the entire USA will miscalculate here / jim

To: Chas. who wrote (119223)	11/11/2003 2:06:04 PM
From: GST	Respond to of 281500

The issue was never whether or not we should do something post 9/11 -- the issue was what is the best thing to do. What you seem to have trouble accepting is that invading Iraq was neither the only option available nor the wisest course of action to improve the national security of the United States. The odds of a positive outcome along the lines the necocons projected have been shown for what they are: ideological fantasy. Now we have to come back to reality and make plans that will achieve what we want, and what we want is national security for the United States first and improvement in the middle east so far as that can be achieved without seriously breaching our own security interests.