Are you suggesting that the problems in that region only surfaced in the
last 85 years?
I don't doubt that oil is partially responsible for our involvement in that
region, but I think that hatred and barbarism, which show no boundaries,
are more responsible.
At 04:13 PM 5/23/03 +0100, Heasman, David wrote:
>"We" haven't left the situation and the region alone for more than 5 minutes
>in the last 85 years. "We" drew the borders of Iraq, Arabia, Kuwait, Oman.
>"We" installed rulers and paid assassins (failed assassins in the case of
>SH) to remove them. Surely this is common knowledge?
>
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>> But haven't we "left the situation and the region alone" for 2000 years,
>> and nothing has changed?
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>At 11:57 PM 5/22/03 EDT, Wirt Atmar wrote:
>>As the occupying power, we are now obligated to rebuild Iraq as well as we
>>can, but that remains something that I have gave doubts that we will see
>through
>>to even a mediocre end. If we had left the situation alone, to evolve on
>its
>>own, we -- and the people of the region -- would certainly have been better
>>off.
>>
>>Wirt Atmar
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