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...that the Arab world extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf; 64 percent disagreed. Concludes Professor Farah, "This is surprising, considering the fact that this is what students are taught in school and hear repeatedly in the media. It is consistent, thought, with the students' general tendency to reject the idea of Pan-Arabism...
...absolutely right; he should be proud that many Arabs like Mr. El-Jeaan have had the courage to reject the intellectual and moral slavery that Pan-Arabism has come to represent. He should be proud that many Arabs like Mr. El-Jeaan cherish the ideal of establishing a "moral paradigm among all the Arab people" which would guarantee justice and self-determination for all the states in the region...
...James Baker, Brent Scowcroft, Colin Powell and Dick Cheney. President Kennedy conducted the Bay of Pigs Fiasco in a similar manner. He then sought a wide range of advice during the Cuban Missile Crisis. That's one reason there wasn't a Cuban Missile Fiasco. Even if you eventually reject your opposition's dissenting views, it doesn't hurt to hear them...
...joint Baghdad-Moscow production, Foreign Ministry spokesman Vitali Churkin Friday morning coolly labeled it an Iraqi plan that the Soviets were still discussing and not exactly endorsing. Later on, after the Bush ultimatum, a senior Soviet diplomat said not only that Moscow knew that the allies would reject the eight-point plan but also that "they were right not to accept it." Sergei Grigoriev, deputy spokesman for Gorbachev, went further yet to state in interviews on Western TV that the allies' suspicions of Saddam might well be justified: "The Iraqis are impossible. How can Washington trust Saddam without any guarantees...
Bush's decision to reject the Soviet peace plan had two objectives, scholars say. Not only did the U.S. want to reduce Hussein's arsenal, but the Administration wanted to leave the Iraqi leader little room to claim any sort of victory--military, moral or otherwise. Arabs would then have little reason to regard him as a hero, experts...