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To: Thinkin' Gal
Sigh.. you're as extreme as the Muslims that want to destroy us. Will you please clear your head and listen to reason.. moderation.. the guy has to answer to what 40 to 50 percent of his population that is Palistian.. get a grip on yourself.. no head of state does or says anything without thinking what it could do to the nation as a whole(I can't believe I really have to explain this to you.) please for everyone's sake.. take a deep breath and mutter to yourself over and over... I am not a head of state... I am not a head of state... then please say... I will try and understand their position... I will try and open my mind... try it and you might actually learn to become realistic of the situation in Jordan.
28 posted on 07/15/2002 5:08:15 PM PDT by Almondjoy
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To: Almondjoy
Sometimes you feel like a nut; sometimes you don't.
30 posted on 07/15/2002 5:56:41 PM PDT by Thinkin' Gal
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To: Almondjoy

36 posted on 07/15/2002 8:34:12 PM PDT by Prodigal Daughter
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To: Almondjoy
I think you're quite right that Abdullah's circumstances make it very difficult to judge what any official Jordanian public pronouncements mean or what their real audience is. It's also worth looking at Jordan's borders sometime: other than Israel, his neighbors are Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.

I wonder very much what effect the removal of Saddam and (hopefully) the thorough intimidation of Syria will have on Abdullah's role in the Middle East. After Black September, extreme prejudice against Palestinian militancy must surely be a deep if hidden principle of Hashemite policy. And it's pretty clear that the Hashemites are capable of doing normal business with Israel, even if it's without a lot of affection.

Without two Arab terror states on his flanks, capable of punishing cooperation with Israel, Abdullah might be able to play a constructive role in managing the West Bank Palestinians and even sell it to his people as helping to free them from Israel.

It's also important to remember that a western victory in Iraq will have an effect on the Arab masses as well as on Arab governments - and all the experience we have says it will not be, as the Left says (and hopes), to inflame the "street" and make it unmanageable. All experience is that the street gets less violent the stronger we seem. So Abdullah's domestic dynamics might well be different after the lightning falls on Saddam.

38 posted on 07/15/2002 9:02:13 PM PDT by Southern Federalist
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