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"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote:


We are not welcome in the Middle East except as a potential trading partner
(with the saner people). You may have noticed that we meddle in that region
in ways we would never consider elsewhere in the world.

I don't see this. I think we are meddling (currently) in the ME the
same way we have meddled in South America, parts of Asia (see Korea and
VN) in the past. We just like to meddle.