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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry
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To: stockman_scott who wrote (38629)7/29/2004 11:37:23 AM
From: Rock_nj of 81568
 
That's a good point. It's one of the biggest problems I have with this whole "War on Terror". Those Bi$$ions of dollars would be much better spent right here at home employing more police, gathering more intelligence, building a better anti-terror infrastructure, etc. Also, these hot wars we're engaging in are having the opposite (probably the intended) effect of creating more terrorists and more resentment against the U.S. in the arab world. I say the intended effect, because I think this whole War on Terror is being pushed by the military industrial complex (MIC) to further their existence. More terrorist, more angry arabs, means more funding for the good ole MIC. It's like the good ole Cold War days of nearly limitless military spending (another war that was overblown by these same interests).

We're fighting this "War" in a typical American half-assed way. With heavy reliance on military solutions, and no root cause solutions being developed. Two root cause solutions to our terrorism problem would be to force the Israelies to settle their differences with the Palestinians (we could withhold our $4B), and to fund a serious effort to get ourselves off Mid East oil, so we could disengage from that trecherous part of the world.
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