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To: SARMAN who wrote (243600)	10/1/2007 6:19:45 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Thus the failures in ME are of the US not the ME. I don't know what you mean by 'of the US' so don't know what to make of that. Being an influencer and being an actual participant are different. The main responsibility for the current situation in the ME (whether you consider them failures or successes) are held by the ME population. Dubai is an amazing success story in the region - that's a success of the local population with some outside influence by the US. You wouldn't credit all of Dubai's splendor to the USA, would you? You should credit it to the people of Dubai. In the same way, all of the areas you deem failures are failures primarily due to the failings of the people of that region, not to "US influence". To attribute the various situations in the ME entirely to US hands is to assume that the people of regions are nothing more than robotic automotons responding to inputs from a US joystick, which is just not the case.