From: William (williamweb@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Apr 07 2002 - 16:17:25 MDT
> Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 16:11:36 -0800 (PST)
> From: "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com>
> Subject: RE: POLITICS: Re: grim prospects - US support of Israel vs. an
Arabic coalition against Iraq/Iran and US dependence on Saudi Oil -
> > Once fuel cell technology or some other energy source
> > can be found and implemented to replace petro-fuel, I think that
> > we (USA) could act more unilaterally with only European and
> > other non-Arab support.
>
> You are dreaming if you think this is going to happen anytime
> within the next decade. I've worked a lot on this problem and
> have a solution but it isn't going to happen quickly.
#### What energy solution do you think would be better than fuel cells?
(The electric-gasoline hybrid is a modest improvement.)
> > Saudi financing of Palestinian and Iraqi terror is honestly enough
> > reason to attack the Saudi kingdom once we have enough economic
> > independence from them to do that.
>
> Saudi financing? Have you not read the papers that Saddam is paying
> the families of the suicide bombers or that organizations in the
> U.S. and Europe have channeled funds to mixed-use Palestinian
> causes?
#### Yes, I am aware of these other sources as well.
> The only way out of this mess is to begin to educate Arabs and
> muslims (and Christans and Jews) in general to "think rationally".
> You have to free the press, then convert the educational systems
> and change the governments from monarchies to democracies.
#### I agree that democratization is the ultimate solution to this
Middle Eastern mess. Al Jazeer TV is the only "free press" example
I am aware of outside of the Internet to which most do not have
access. It's hard to see how democracy gets introduced.
Countires like Turkey or Algeria have had some limited succcess.
> You want to do this by gradual political pressure or by example
> (e.g. our economic growth rate in a free society is greater than
> yours in a suppressed society) rather than by force.
>
> Robert
>
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