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To: hueyone who wrote (153265)	2/19/2003 11:29:37 AM
From: GST	Respond to of 164684

Huey. I cannot take issue with you on the degree to which future terror is a function of an Iraqi invasion -- the hatred is in the pipeline already. What concerns me is that our policies are so well-suited to the needs of terrorists to legitimize their "cause".

To: hueyone who wrote (153265)	2/19/2003 12:24:56 PM
From: GST	Respond to of 164684

<<Sister Howard (who is a nun of the Notre Dame order) is a friendly sort, so she thought nothing of striking up a conversation with the Muslim man sitting next to her on the bus. She tried first in Swahili and then switched to English. Everything was going fine until she acknowledged that she was an American. "When I said I was from the States, he got so upset," she said. "He said we were trying to rule the world. He said that over and over. Then he said if he could have been in one of those planes that crashed in New York on Sept. 11, he would have been." Stunned, Sister Howard tried to persuade the angry man that she and her government were not the same. "I told him I want to be a person of peace," she said. "He told me that an American couldn't bring peace. Then he said he had to change his seat because I was going to give him a heart attack." Sister Howard was nevertheless surprised and slightly offended as the man got up from his seat and sat down next to another Kenyan. Her vacation proceeded without incident, although the day after she returned to Nairobi, terrorists struck in Mombasa, leveling a tourist hotel frequented by Israelis and narrowly missing a planeload of tourists on their way back to Israel. "So much suffering," she said. Sister Howard has gone on with her life, one that is as close to the people of Kenya as it always has been. She has experienced no other incidents but is constantly bracing for them. She has a wish: that American policymakers from President Bush (news - web sites) on down try living overseas themselves, not in fancy hotels or expatriate enclaves, but with everyday people, some of whom may not like them very much. "I felt overwhelmed, but it made me reflect," she said of her conversation with the man on the bus. "What kind of people are we? Why do people think this way?" >> The article provides a range of examples of how Americans experience living abroad now. news.yahoo.com