In a country where freedom of expression has been off limits for half a century, the Internet had at first proven to be a godsend people poured their enthusiasm into it by building Web sites and personal homepages.

Barely a month after the rejection of the European Union Constitution in France and the Netherlands, the EU Summit in Brussels ended in a surprisingly acrimonious orgy of national egoisms and no deal. Then the terrorists struck in London.

Thus, the West s forays into state capitalism are more likely to result in the misallocation of capital, more in the vein of China s vastly oversupplied steel industry but without the stellar headline economic performance of the national economy.

In fact, the thinness of Morocco's statement stems from its inability to explain to the international community why it is keeping an entire people under occupation and why, against the unanimous will of that same community, it continues to deny this people the right to self determination and to reject the various United Nations peace plans after having accepted them.

In a country where freedom of expression has been off limits for half a century, the Internet had at first proven to be a godsend people poured their enthusiasm into it by building Web sites and personal homepages.