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To: Katelew who wrote (215992)	2/2/2007 4:11:12 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Not really, got to start somewhere. I really don't see the Arab world making any progress until it somehow rids itself of its tribal mentality. Unfortunately, oil wealth exacerbates the problem in the oil-rich countries. With the price of oil set to stay very high thanks to higher demand and dwindling supply, the transfer of wealth will be enormous. So far that transfer of wealth has mostly resulted in a tremendous waste of lots and lots money and a continuing devotion to the tribal model, a model which doesn't work in this day and age. So long as the Arabs do not make progress, they'll be a millstone around the West's neck thanks to terrorism and endemic instability in a part of the world which is terribly important to the West.

To: Katelew who wrote (215992)	2/2/2007 4:12:07 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

"I presume you feel the Bush effort to give democracy to these barbarians is an exercise in futility?" Presumptuous indeed you are being. 1) Liberty isn't given, it is a natural right which must be realized, declared, and protected by establishment of society. 2) barbarians? 3) The history of the world is one of struggles against one form of tyranny or another to evolve liberties or to establish increasingly liberal democracies. How futile it is, would be a matter of perspective.