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On 7 Apr 2002 at 13:31, F. Marc de Piolenc wrote:
> I'm sorry you've bought the terrorist line that it's all about
> US support for Israel. I know better. We could withdraw from the
> Middle East tomorrow, and all that would change would be the
> excuse.
Possibly, but what does it benefit the US to hang around in the
middle East? Why are we sending very large sums of money and
loads of arms to Israelis, who hate us venemously, to Egyptians,
who hate us maniacally, to Saudis, who hate us suicidally, money
that enrages the rest of the middle East, and the subjects of
Egypt, and Saudi Arabia even more?
Now one might suppose there is some benefit to assisting Kuwait,
which is sitting on a large lake of oil, and whose citizens merely
hate us irrationally. Israel, and Palestine however, are mostly
of significance due the extreme sacredness of three rocks, and the
extreme sacredness of a large pile of municipal fill stacked up by
Herod. One of those rocks is probably not even the genuine thing,
since the crusaders broke most, and presumably all, of the real
thing up for souvenirs.
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James A. Donald
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