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Originally posted by Spanky
We focus our middle east policy on trying to get these countrys to adopt policies that lead to economic growth - which, by the way, should always be the focus of our foreign policy.
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Yes - I myself am a big advocate of making sure that in places like Lebanon, which have a history of Democracy and have developed a substantial middle class educated in a Western style, don't get turned over to the fundamentalist Islamic hotheads. It's very hard to develop such traditions, and, I think, even harder once they are destroyed and replaced.
So, to paraphrase an American politician, are the Lebanese better off today than they were four months ago?
