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To: Byron_the_Aussie
Show the Arabs what can be done under US guidance and values,

And then they hate us for exporting our culture. It's really up to the Arabs to change and one thing they have to change is the culture that keeps them primitive. Polygamy isn't compatible with middle class systems, one man cannot support 4 wives and 50 kids by working 1 or 2 jobs and the system of one man taking many women leaving the rest of the men with nothing better than to die for the religion is one reason they're backward. Islam makes them perfectly content to keep their corrupt leaders and mullahs, the only way we can keep control of them is not to let them bring their culture here and keep a good handle on their leaders.

367 posted on 12/29/2001 12:10:29 AM PST by FITZ
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To: FITZ
...it's really up to the Arabs to change and one thing they have to change is the culture that keeps them primitive. Polygamy isn't compatible with middle class systems, one man cannot support 4 wives and 50 kids by working 1 or 2 jobs and the system...

Hang on. In a third-world rural economy you need those big families, to work in the fields. So there's a good reason for that.

I think the onus is on the US to break the envy nexus and show the Arabs there's a better way. A bit of lateral thinking, along the line of JFK's Peace Corps, perhaps.

376 posted on 12/29/2001 12:18:11 AM PST by Byron_the_Aussie
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