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To: maceng2 who wrote (133435)	5/18/2004 2:20:45 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I think most people know that creating implacable enemies is a bad idea. What's happening in Iraq (and Israel for that matter) is that large numbers of enemies are being created. It's best not to have them in the first place. As opposed to a few years ago, when we didn't have any? Osama declared his jihad in 1998. So, what were the US and Israel doing in 1998 to "create enemies"? Get your head out of the sand, PB. Israel didn't create those enemies, it's just the canary in the coal mine for an entire set of pan-Arab craziness, chief of which is the idea that nobody but Arabs (Sunni Arabs at that) must be allowed to rule anywhere in Arabia. If you are a Christian Copt, a Maronite, a Jew, it's your job to learn to like being a dhimmi. If you are a Kurd or a Shi'ite, it's your job to be ruled by your betters, the 'real' Arab Muslims. As one Arab diplomat said off the record to Jim Hoagland recently, "How can having majority Shi'a rule in Iraq be democracy when 85% of the Arab world is Sunni?" Roll that thought around in your head for a while and consider the implications.

To: maceng2 who wrote (133435)	5/18/2004 3:02:17 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Why do you imagine that it is wholly within our power to create friends or enemies? How do you know that large numbers of enemies have been created in Iraq? If anything, the pettiness of the uprisings shows how few people are truly hostile to the United States, and the actions of the Shi'a tribal leaders show the general yearning for normality. Oh, and in the last poll brought up, the overwhelming majority of Iraqis have a favorable view of the American trained, Iraqi manned security forces. How hostile is that, if they trust those working for us?