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To: carranza2 who wrote (234465)	6/27/2007 3:16:16 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

If the Lebanese blogger can finally be clear-eyed about the reasons for his country's problems, there is hope. I loved the analogy to the lioness and her cubs. Sometimes the simplest comparisons are the best. I hope so, c2. What always gets me is how unbelievably emotional most Arab posters I've read are - and those are the English speaking pro-American ones! 'Perpetual Refugee' is a businessman, he had worked in Israel, he knew Israelis - and he still went hysterically anti-Israel last summer, instead of directing his anger at Hizbullah, which is what any Israeli would have done if he had been in his shoes. There is just something about Arab cultures and their incredible valuation of group cohesion that makes them easy prey for being led off the cliff by extremists who push the right buttons. You would think this wouldn't apply to the Lebanese, with their fractured politics, but it still seems to work - 'me, my brother, and my cousin against the outsider'