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To: Jane Hafker who wrote (65)	2/23/1998 11:10:00 PM
From: J.S.	Respond to of 1615

In 1991 it was about Kuwait. Right now Iraq is extremely weak. The leadership of these gulf states were set up by British colonialism mostly as a means of doing the bidding for the West. You are right. They are no better. The common man and woman in the street is always the victim, be it here in Iraq or anywhere else. Joe

To: Jane Hafker who wrote (65)	2/23/1998 11:45:00 PM
From: Jane Hafker	Respond to of 1615

Well, the difference between your view that Kuwait was l991, of course it was, and occupied and being horribly so after the fact, and mine that it is again recyling itself and it is all starting once again is that I just read "Oil, (some word) and the Islam Mind." Good book. After reading it it became totally clear in my pea brain that they have in fact come to rent our army when needed, and that for nearly free. Only Sadaam has an army. The Saudis and Kuwaits have paid thugs to guard their own palaces, I think. Not much more, or I haven't seen much of it and I rather keep my eyes open. All I'm saying is that it interesting, and if thought about, it seems to explain a lot of the madness of the whole thing of American working middle and upper class professional reservists donning battle gear and rushing over to defend a nation of filthy rich arabs who could afford the best army in the world, but have absolutely none to speak of. And Kuwait is definitely coming up again, and this time it seems all the more interesting since I now know they personally own much of my country. Like I say, it is just another piece of a strange, strange puzzle, made all the more strange by a man I have never laid eyes on from some country totally unknown to me negotiating with the maddest of the madmen on earth whether or not HE, this strange unknown man from wherever, can "negotiate peace" singlehandedly. Oh, then the American middle and upper middle class reservists will know whether or not they are going to fly to the Gulf to make the Gulf safe for Arabs. I'm sorry, but it is sinister and beyond nuts.