In her new book, "Leap of Faith," Queen Noor of Jordan quotes George Bush Sr. as saying to her husband, "I will not allow this little dictator [Saddam Hussein] to control 25 percent of the civilized world's oil." Of course the key words here are "the civilized world." By their very nature, fundamentalists of all stripes consider their doctrines to be the truest and superior to all others.

This is Laura Nader's civilized point of view.

But to the world's remaining dictators the key word is "little".

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