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Merlin Dorfman <dorfman@green.rahul.net> enscribed:
>      Yes, the Middle East is one of those places where no good deed
> goes unpunished.  The US has a very bad image in the Arab/Muslim

Would you care to list all the good deeds of America in the Mideast?

>      You could certainly propose that the US end its support of 
> Israel and start sucking up (more) to the Arabs in order to gain

The U.S. supports all kinds of Arabs.

Well, technically not _all_ kinds. We tend to reserve our support for dictators, torturers, warmongers, violent thugs, fascists, autocrats. Those kinds.

> the support of those billion people.  A "realist" foreign policy
> has something to recommend it.  But in this case I think you would
> be very disappointed with the results.

A non-racist foreign policy would help. Of course then we might have to pay market prices for our oil. That would be so much more expensive than what U.S. is paying for its current foreign policy, like a war in Iraq, a new World Trade Center, etc.

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Feh. Mad as heck.