[PEN-L:30150] Re: ex-URPE member makes good

["ken hanly" <khanly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Do these characters advocating democracy in Iraq and elsewhere really
believe what they are saying? Are they completely self-deceived? Or is it a
conscious smoke-screen to disguise the fact they are really after control of
oil. Wouldnt, the frist result of democracy be the election of a radical
Muslim government at least in many Arab countries?

Cheers, Ken Hanly


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Perelman" <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 10:53 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:30144] ex-URPE member makes good


> Common Dreams has an article from the Boston Globe.
> http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0910-01.htm
>
> In it you can read:
>
> Patrick Clawson, deputy director of the Washington Institute for Near East
> Policy, contends that a pro-US Iraq would lead to a reassessment of the
> US-Saudi alliance, which dates to World War II but has become strained
> since Sept. 11 attacks, and the worsening of the Israeli-Palestinian
> conflict.
>
>  --
> Michael Perelman
> Economics Department
> California State University
> Chico, CA 95929
>
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