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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (67711)	2/10/2003 10:09:01 AM
From: chomolungma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Sun, I really liked your definition on who's a terrorist and who's a freedom fighter. Regarding your comment: "I forgot to say two more thing...the first is that although there exists a very small faction whose true goal is what you'd call Islamist-imperialism, by and large it is local oppression and corruption, and lack of fair play by the West (perceived or otherwise) that pushes Muslims to flunk to their ranks. Remove the root causes and you remove the threat." I hope you'll expand on this a bit. If the local oppression is the problem, what can the U.S. do? Sounds like this is out of our hands other than trying to influence Arab governments. If it's the perceived lack of fair play by the West that's the problem, what can we do? My own opinion is that the two root causes are 1) Poverty and lack of economic opportunity 2) The United States blind support of Israel and that country's refusal to accept an independent Palestine.