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Russ
SubjectRe: Republicanism still an offence in England? (wasRe: Queen mother
FromRuss
Date2002-05-23 17:41 (2002-05-23 17:41)
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In article <aciuq0$4c0$1@oravannahka.helsinki.fi>, Tamim <hallaril@hotmail.com> writes:

Tamim
Russ <mcresq@aol.com>wrote:

In article <achdni$dcs$1@oravannahka.helsinki.fi>, Tamim

<hallaril@hotmail.com>

writes:

The Arabs once were rich and powerful and now that they are only rich (at least the princes are) they feel a bit humiliated by the USA. And as I said USA surely rubs it in.

It wasn't the West that ended the Arab golden age - it was the Muslim

Ottoman

Turks.

That's true and beside the point.

It's not besides the point. If the Arabs are looking back on some lost 'golden age' why are they blaming the West, which had nothing to do with them losing it?

Russ

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