Arabs snub US over Iraq troops

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Americans are just so wildly popular in the other Arab nations (where democracy is just fixin' to bust out any second), that the citizens are so busy dancing in the streets to send help to their Iraqi brethren. Almost too ironic for words!

Surely it couldn't be popular...U.S. control over reserves and pricing. Yet we are among OPEC's best customers. What to do...what to do?

--are so frustrated by their secular leaders that they turn to Islamic fundamentalism. Too many Arab governments sit on their hands and do nothing but gripe on the sidelines.

Hey, Mubarek and others: you COULD have prevented the Iraqi war, but not only did you NOT DO A DAMN THING, many of you actually collaborated (Kuwait) or colluded (Egypt, Saudi) with the "infidel." You and Bushco deserve each other, you're all hopelessly corrupt.

...on his military for power. His military is dependent on American military assistance and supplies. They are effectively neutralized.

The Saudis have committed the cardinal sin of taking control of their own energy resources. They have succeeded in neutralizing a neighboring threat while watching the arrogant American regime stew in their own foibles. They hate each other and can't live without each other. The student has become the teacher as far as dirty dealing goes. They know every trick the BFEE and CIA has ever played. Sooner or later there is going to be more trouble as the Saudis try to maintain their power and independence.

It's not a case of Egypt sitting on its hands and doing nothing in the face of American military power or the local Iraqi installed despot. Egypt is a client state of the US. It treads the line constantly of pacifying/repressing its population and trying not to appear too pro-American, while pocketing a couple billion from Washington every year. That's the general pattern for a client state. It receives the second largest allotment of American foreign assistance, after Israel. That is the way the world is structured. That's where our taxes go.

Although lanlady, I do agree that this is partly why religion fills the gap where other forms of civil activity might otherwise have developed.

That way we could quit begging others to bail us out. What ever happened to all that rugged individualism, patriotism, etc. horseshit the reich wing spews daily? Send YOUR sons, daughters, nieces, nephews, etc. to fight YOUR war. Don't worry newt and dick c., they'll even take the gay ones!:hippie: