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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (116920)	10/18/2003 2:14:34 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

No, I don't believe in controlling the news. Oh.. Tell that to those who seek to profit by reporting only the negative news (because it sells). We should conduct ourselves, so the Muslim world voluntarily reports positive things about us, in their press. Maybe we should conduct ourselves in the overtly biased manner that we see from the Muslim press, as controlled by some of the same corrupt elements which have sought to control the thought process of the people.. After all, wasn't it a major official at Al-Jazeera who was discovered to have taken financial pay-offs from Saddam's regime? If we are seen as a force for evil in the world By whom? By those whom are attempting to impose their own form of evil upon the world? Let's objectively review the facts here.. The US, while certainly imperfect, is a nation where millions of people hope to eventually live. People are constantly dying trying to get here.. Which means that everyone dying to enter the US, either risked, or lost, their life ESCAPING their previous homeland. That's not something to be ashamed about. People are fleeing here and to Europe in hopes of escaping the evil being inflicted upon them by the corrupt and militant elements in their own society. And since the US is operating in THEIR world, a world ruled by those who would seek to continue to oppress their own people and their neighbors, we have to understand that they are still being intimidated and corrupted to say what their despotic leaders wish them to say.. And if anything, what I'm sensing is the major Iraqi gripe is that the US has failed to fulfill it's "promises" to them.. I don't know just what we "promised", but I don't believe it was absolute safety and security. What we promised was freedom to choose what kind of future they wished to embrace. If anything, we need to respond to such gripes by asking them what they are willing to do in order to fulfill such goals. Then we should promise to support them to achieve such results, where possible. But the ultimate responsibility for shaping their future is THEIRS, not ours.. Hawk