The Middle East still has many poor and needy people, so I think governments and civil society should pay close attention to my money saving proposition, especially in view of the looming recession.

Each year there is an Arab League summit, which decides almost nothing at all. Each year, all the newspapers in the Arab countries of the Middle East write editorials bewailing the inaction and powerlessness of the Arab League. Of course, each set of editorial writers wanted the summit to take a different and opposed action. The Syrians do not understand why the summit did not agree to their plan. The Saudis bewail the fact that the summit did not adopt their plan, and the Egyptians complain that the summit did not serve Arab interests by adopting their proposals. Muammar Qaddafi, Dictator President of Libya, generally gets the best mileage out of Arab League summits by making some outrageous statement. True to form, he did not disappoint this year either. He told the assembled leaders that they were all about to be destroyed by the United States, like Saddam Hussein. Qaddafi himself became a favorite of the West after giving up his nuclear development program and offering some nominal cooperation. So has nothing to worry about in that regard. [more]

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