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To: JohnM who wrote (37742)	4/4/2004 9:58:02 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793750

>>Nobody should expect gratitude from Arabs for anything for more than a minute and a half. Sigh. And some have been known to accuse Juan Cole of anti-semitism because of a critical comment about Wolfowitz!! I'ts a bit of a sweeping statment but encompasses a cultural reality with a great deal of predictive power. If Iraq was full of, say, Rumanians, the people would be reacting quite differently. People who are familiar with Iraqis predicted the reaction - that injured pride is a main driver with Iraqis, along with tribal ties and the usual Arab honor-shame motivations. Why it's not PC to notice that different cultures really truly do react differently to the same stimuli, I have never figured out.