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To: epicure who wrote (134471)	5/26/2004 4:31:04 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

X, from the threats currently made and previously, it seems that Osama's mob is keen to destroy as much of the USA as possible and to hell with the consequences. Some people just enjoy macho confrontation, killing and destruction. So there's plenty of scope for carnage. <I think the only way you can work against folks like that is lessen the perception that you are fighting them > Unfortunately, the way to do that is to be submissive. Which means they are the boss. Which is unacceptable to me, for one. But Osama has some reasonable points. The USA doesn't need to be in Saudi Arabia or Iraq and it's questionable that Israel has a right to some 2000 year old "promised land". Other than squatter's rights, the current regime in Saudi Arabia has no more right to the spoils than Osama and the bin Laden clan if they can get them. It looks like a Shakespearian tragedy to me - the bin Ladens and House of Saud in cahoots with the Bushes, Carlyle and Halliburton, but with the Black Sheep Osama blowing everyone up, who comes to rule the roost when the bin Ladens swap sides, like Chalabi, and everyone ends up dead with Hamlet [or is it Macbeth] raving in the Arabian Nights wilderness. You'd think we'd have learned a thing or two over 400 years. Mqurice