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The spice must flow

Frank Hebert's fremen were very similar to the Afghans and of course he stole shamelessly from the Arab culture for terminology. Is oil the spice? I have never known if Hebert was drawing an analogy.

Dostrum sounds a bit like Rabin.

To our credit this is probably the reason we have been careful with the assistance we have given the Northern Alliance.

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