[Chunga]

"We are a major customer for Arab oil and the Arabs have every reason to be friendly to us as they were for years...our support of Israel has been a disaster for American interests."

Our support for Arab countries has been a disaster for U.S. interests.

We have extended our hand in friendship to the Arab nations for decades. We send them billions of dollars in aid every year. We buy their oil. We prop up their regimes. We defended Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, and, by extension, the U.A.E., Qatar, Bahrain and Oman from Saddam. Our support of Israel does not invalidate the support we've shown them and the goodwill, free money and commerce they've received from us.

How are we repayed?

They finance terrorism and fuel the propaganda that causes it, aiming at our closest ally in the region and daring us to stand beside that ally. You'd have us capitulate to these terrorists and abandon Israel.

Learn this: Arab leaders are using radical Islamic leaders who are using the Palestinian terrorists who are using children to murder innocent Israeli civilians.

This is a moral conflict. You're on the wrong side.

[Seti 1]

We have extended our hand in friendship to the Arab nations for decades. We send them billions of dollars in aid every year. We buy their oil. We prop up their regimes. We defended Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, and, by extension, the U.A.E., Qatar, Bahrain and Oman from Saddam. Our support of Israel does not invalidate the support we've shown them and the goodwill, free money and commerce they've received from us.

This is nonsense. The only aid we send to Arab nations is the several billions we give Egypt as part of the Camp David Accords, i.e., for making peace with Israel. We prop up their regimes to insure our oil supply and to retain leaders who willing to put up with Israel.

Somehow I don't think Pearle, Wolfowitz, Netanyahu, Pipes, et al., care that much about Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. We took on Saddam because he threatened Israel. They want us to "finish the job" now.

[El Gato]

Don't forget that we also provided support to the Afghans trying to kick the Soviets out of their country. We saved Saudi Arabia from Saddam, we bend over backward to observe their restrictive "customs" to the point of violating the rights of servicemen and women, and for this they hate us, spend millions and millions of dollars to support terrorists who then attack us. Fine, but fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. I hope we won't be fooled again by this particular (large) subset of the Muslim world.