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To: jttmab who wrote (121900)	12/21/2003 8:40:09 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 281500

Much better! However, I am not putting out a paper for Rand, I am in an informal discussion. All I have to do is show is that there is reason to doubt their credibility, not, as you point out, to definitively prove my point, but to show that there is no necessary rational correlation between events and their interpretation, and thus prevent your point from prevailing. Sure, America supports Israel, although it often has objected to particular policies, in the last few years. Does that mean that Jews rule the world behind the scenes, or that Jews are in a war with Muslims in general? No, those are not rationally extrapolated from the data. Now, some of the reaction could be rational, of course, but you cannot use public opinion in these places to prove the rationality. There are alternative explanations for the shift, like the effect of the Afghan war in bringing to prominence jihadists in many Muslim countries, as foreign veterans of the fight returned home, or the accusations that Israel, through neoconservatives, is now in control of Mideast policy, and using America to its benefit..........