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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: LindyBill who wrote (43109)9/10/2002 9:45:38 PM
From: jcky  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
AQ is the symptom, ZP. The problem is the Islamist Culture that breeds and supports it. You want to cut out the visable Cancer. Others believe that it needs radical surgery.

And exactly how does the US 'cut' out the Islamist culture considering 1.3 billion people around the world practice Islam? The cancer analogy is a poor example because cutting out a cancer does not address the underlying pathology. It does not address the root cause and is also a short term solution. What makes far more sense is to prevent cancer rather than to cut it or cure it. An ounce of prevention is far more desirable than a pound of cure.

And pointing to the Islamist culture as the root cause of al-Qaida still does not explain why so many educated citizens from modern, pro-western, democratic nations perceive a heavy-handed, hypocritical US foreign policy as a contributing factor to the cancer.
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