From: Spike Jones (spike66@attglobal.net)
Date: Mon Dec 17 2001 - 18:54:05 MST
> > Samantha Atkins wrote:
> > > Simply open your eyes to what we have done in the Middle East
> > > and what we continue to do to this day.
>
> Kai Becker wrote: You should browse in your history book to a few pages earlier. There you will find which massive influence the former US
> governments (and the former
> Soviet Republic) had in that region.... It is never as simple as "we did good, they did bad"...
Sure, mine was a very simplified analysis. Let us look at
this from another perspective. Consider "good relations with
the west" as a resource. Israel has used this to great advantage
to both itself and the west. Saudi Arabia has so benefited as well,
granted to a lesser extent. Destroying good relations, especially
with those neighbors who have a lot of money and power, is not
in the best interest of any nation, analogous to torching one's
own oil fields.
So let the Middle Eastern nations do as the Jews have done,
send some of their brightest and best to Europe, to America,
to Asia. Let them work their way up thru the governments
and businesses in those places, then send wealth and brains
back to the home country.
Of course, many or most of the expatriates will become assimilated.
I have a vision of the Christian, the Arab and the Jew sitting
in the park together and commiserating that their grandsons
are far more interested in mastering the subtleties of nintendo
than the bible, the koran or the torah. May it be so. spike
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