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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Constant Reader who wrote (38672)	11/25/2001 4:42:58 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 82486

<<The reason it is important to eliminate bin Laden — besides justice — is the same reason it was critical to eliminate the Taliban: as long as we're chasing him around, there will never be an honest debate among Muslims and Arabs about the future of their societies.>> Friedman makes the point a couple of times that this "honest debate" can't start while Osama is still around. The point he doesn't make is that Osama's death will trigger the debate. Or that something else will trigger the debate. I don't know what will get that debate going. It's hard for a people to become introspective and look to make changes. And you don't usually do that as a response to losing one of your own at the hand of the "others." I can't imagine the ME states doing that anymore than I can imagine us having an "honest debate" on root causes. Karen