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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: kumar who wrote (6160)12/7/2003 8:48:16 PM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 15990
 
"Me against my brother, me and my brother against my family, me and my family against our clan, me and our clan against all outsiders".

Maybe.. but since we're no longer stationing major forces in Saudi Arabia, we're no "outsiders"..

Which means we're backing one side of the internal Saudi power struggle, namely the progressive modernist side.

And also, we have to bear in mind that the fundmentalist have one glaring problem. They have no viable alternative solution to their societies problems except Jihad.

Hawk