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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (173730)8/14/2003 6:35:59 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1573984
 
For starters spend the money allocated for terrorists on trying to capture the terrorists and not on the Iraqi war.

The money allocated for fighting terrorist is being used to fight terrorists. The money allocated for the Iraq war is being used for the Iraq war. The money for the Iraq war doesn't prevent spending on anti-terrorism any more then any other federal spending prevents anti-terrorism spending.

In any case I doubt you would actually advocate spending zero on Iraq now. I know you would not have gone there in the first place but we are there and if you suddenly became president or even dictator you would have to deal with that reality.

A major beefing up of the CIA should be happening.

The CIA gets a lot of money already. It should beef up its human intelligence effort but that is more a matter of skill, effort and persistence then more money. It certainly is not something that you can cure quickly just by spending a lot of money.

Reducing poverty in the world would go a long way in neutralizing terrorists and their cause.

Reducing poverty in the world, to the extent the US can and should be doing it at all, is not something that can be done in a few years, nor would the amount of spending in Iraq make a significant long term dent. In any case Bush already is increasing aid for the poor countries of the world, particularly to fight AIDS, or fight terrorism.

Tim
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