We'll wake up from the nightmare on 24 June remembering we're a moderate nation, unseduced by Pied Pipers of far right or left.
I notice that Crown Prince Abdullah recently called on your country's leading clerics "to examine with restraint every word that leaves our mouths, [because] Allah has said in the Koran: 'We have made you a moderate nation.' " I also noticed that you told a group of Saudi religious leaders that "what is important here is for a centrist trend [in Islam] to grow gradually.
The reason many are concerned about exactly who runs Algeria is largely down to the fact it plays a key regional role as a producer of oil and as a relatively stable, moderate nation in an often chaotic part of the world.
You write that one character, a builder named Zbigniew, "had once had a sense of the British as a moderate, restrained nation.
Arguing that more can be accomplished for the Palestinians by keeping lines of communication open, Egyptian diplomats managed to tone down militaristic proposals from less moderate nations and to fend off increasingly strident demands for a definitive break.
While some countries favored a tougher line in order to fill their depleted coffers, OPEC's biggest producer, Saudi Arabia, found support from other moderate nations that believed the global economy remained vulnerable, and that higher crude prices could jeopardize an eventual recovery.
The idea of moderate nation-building points to an open multi-culturalism, in which every group receives its share of remedial rights but, instead of walling itself off from others, participates in a common, overlapping civic culture and in open communication with other sub-communities.
Reaching out more actively to the moderate nations of the Caucasus and Central Asia opens great opportunities and can set an example of mutually beneficial relations.
Mr. Bush avoided the politically hostile ground of San Francisco, where he received just one in six votes in 2000, for the more moderate land of the nation's technology capital.
The United States has long counted on Turkey, a moderate Muslim nation, to serve as a bridge between Muslim and Western nations, and Mrs. Clinton couched her criticism by suggesting that it was crucial that Turkey continued to modernize at a time when countries throughout the region were in revolt and searching for models for democratic change.
Extremist violence in the moderate Muslim nation has increased.
