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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (216441)	2/5/2007 6:38:39 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Still avoiding the questions? Good grief, I should have thought that all that reading you do somehow trained you to....read. Guess not. The answer is....please follow this as this carefully as it is my last post today: None of the countries you mentioned are our natural friends or natural allies. Nations generally do not have friends, except perhaps in the sense of the UK/US friendship. Those two share a language, a common history of sorts, and a highly developed democratic civilization in which free minds and free markets rule. Countries without the kind of relationship between the US and the UK have interests, not allies nor friends. When the US calls Egypt or SA a friend and an ally, it is using diplo-speak to disguise the fact that if they were not somehow important to our economic or political interests, we could not give a rat's ass about them. Without oil, SA would be shown the back door to the White House. Without a regime that is good at keeping all those street Arabs in line, Egypt would be nothing but an exotic tourist destination. Comprende?