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To: Sig who wrote (123247)	1/15/2004 1:35:47 AM
From: marcos	Respond to of 281500

Quite possible it could have happened like that .... also, under the sanctions he might have found useful a group who could get stuff across borders ..... there will be a limit to where having common enemies could take any alliance though, because they were enemies, competitors for power This lady Amy Chua was on the radio tonight, she has a book out, she says you have to be careful going about the world setting up instant democracy and raw capitalism willy-nilly, because it can open up old ethnic tensions very fast ..... this could easily apply to Iraq, depending on who ends up as the oligarchy there, and how the rest feel about them - theaustralian.news.com.au 'My aunt's killing was just a pinprick in a violent world. But there is a connection between her murder and the Serbian concentration camps of the early 1990s, the murder of 800,000 Tutsis by ordinary Hutus in Rwanda in 1994, the mobs in Indonesia in 1998 that looted hundreds of Chinese properties and left nearly 2000 dead, and even the terror attacks in the US on September 11, 2001. The connection lies in the relationship among the three most powerful forces operating in the world today: markets, democracy and ethnic hatred. There exists a phenomenon - pervasive outside the West yet rarely acknowledged, indeed often viewed as taboo - that turns free-market democracy into an engine of ethnic conflagration. I am speaking of the phenomenon of market-dominant minorities: ethnic minorities who, for varying reasons, tend under market conditions to dominate economically, often to a startling extent, the indigenous majorities.'