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...Palestinian leader's authority in the West Bank and Gaza also militates against compromise; Arafat is well aware that signing away the refugees' claims would all but invite them to reconstitute the PLO in exile with the backing of more hostile states such as Iraq, Syria and Libya, and to further challenge Arafat?s authority in his own backyard. And after three months of bloodletting, the Palestinian leader knows such challengers may find a receptive audience. All of which militates against him accepting the president's deal...
...trickle down" benefit of globalization. In addition, the report notes frankly that most oil-producing states in the Arab world are unlikely to spend much of their wealth on the needs of their poor citizens - ironically, an issue receiving more attention from anti-Western demagogues such as Libya's Muammar Ghaddafi and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez than among such pro-Western OPEC pillars as the Saudi and Kuwaiti royal families. And the declining social conditions in countries such as Saudi Arabia create a fertile pool of recruits for the likes of Osama Bin Laden. The demographic and economic projections noted...
...Afghanistan. The United Nations Security Council this week, under U.S. urging, imposed new sanctions against Afghanistan in order to press them to surrender Bin Laden. But sanctions were a more effective weapon in an earlier era, when terrorist networks were ultimately dependent on sponsorship by states such as Libya and Syria. Afghanistan is a collapsed state run by an Islamic fundamentalist militia, for whom surrendering Bin Laden - who remains a hero to the angry youth of much of the Islamic world, his image reproduced on pirated Nike T-shirts sold throughout south Asia - might feel like an act of political...
...probably barter oil, which will ultimately enrich privately owned oil companies in Russia, but not the state. So we won't get much, but we shall lose our hard-won relations with the normal parts of the world, and we'll find ourselves isolated along with Iraq, Iran and Libya. Putin's visit to Cuba is a part of this strategy...
...This may be hard to believe, but that little island owes Russia about $20 billion. It's a good example of how the Soviet Union wasted money - our money went up in smoke in Cuba, Angola, Libya and elsewhere. And $20 billion is about half of Russia's total annual national budget right...