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To: ManyMoose who wrote (128588)	4/7/2004 12:37:46 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Most of the oil rich Arab nations got US dollars for their oil. They got plenty of it, and it's THEIR responsibility to do something with it for the average Arab. In principle, you're exactly right. But that's not what has happened, is it? Saudi Arabia has a functional 30% unemployment rate. Yet there are 5 million foreign workers in Saudi Arabia. So we have to ask ourselves exactly what petro-dollars have created in that country. There is a whole population of idle youth who believe they are too good to perform the menial tasks of their society. Thus, they look for something that grants them the self-importance they have been led to believe is their birthright as Arabs. And that makes them easy prey for militants professing Jihad. As for anti-American rhetoric, we don't have to go too far for that, do we? Who needs militants? No doubt... just travel to your local college campus or attend a "peace" rally.. All full of self-hating individuals who complain about a country that millions of people are dying to live in. Hawk