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To: salemas who wrote (134169)	5/24/2004 9:33:46 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Although I have been a devoted student and supporter of Arab/American rocky relations for many years, I have never observed them in such a state of deterioration. Of course he has... so long as the Arabs are able to dictate the timbre and tone of those relations... And if we don't, they'll send their "misguided" Wahhabist militants to teach us a lesson... Or they'll cut off their oil supplies to us... And the gall he had in claiming that the US was now a totalitarian state, when in fact Saudi Arabia ALWAYS HAS BEEN, is nothing less than the height of hypocrisy. Geezuss!!!!! But I have to admit, this was a beautiful peace of propaganda Al-Ajmi created... And these are the types of people who are the business "elite" of Saudi Arabia? Hawk

To: salemas who wrote (134169)	9/21/2004 2:38:11 PM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 281500

A very good, if long-winded, example of the Middle Eastern failure to comprehend a very simple soccer concept: own goal. A complete lack of liberty is, naturally, the fault of the US and Israel, not the fault of heroes such as Saddam, Arafat, the entire putrid Saudi royals, Assad, the insane Qaddafi, etc., the list is too long to bother with. Oh, and suicide bombings by children is also the fault of the US and Israel, the locals being angelic, noble beings not the products of a failed culture which time has passed by. Yes, I'd like to see a soccer match between, say, Syria and the Saudis. An own goal by either side would no doubt be declared by some of the spectators to be the fault of a CIA/neocon conspiracy. Too funny. Nice that the writer puts events in a pre-9/11 and a post-9/11 perspective, one which fails to include the barracks bombing, the Cole bombing, the Pan Am bombing, the Beirut bombing, ad infinitum, ad nauseam. The fact is that zealot Arabs have been inflicting terror for decades, not just since 9/11, and they haven't been a small minority of misguided youths, as the writer stupidly suggests. They are often state-sponsored, as in Qaddafi's case, that is until a few bombs got him to see things a bit more clearly. Arabs need to wake up to reality, accept responsibility for their own failings instead of playing the hapless victim who holds a lit stick of dynamite behind his back.