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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (125067)	2/25/2004 3:29:32 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 281500

First, root causes are misnamed. Just as not every poor person becomes a mugger, not every disgruntled employee shoots up his former offices, and not every person with a geo- political beef starts blowing up everything in sight. "Cause" is obviously not the mot juste, when there must be many other supervening factors to trigger the behavior. Second, the real root causes, although they might have some relationship to fact, are usually embedded in a narrative that is of dubious construction. They are rooted in fact in the way that the concerns of the Aryan Brotherhood are rooted in fact: yes, there is a lot of "miscegenation", but so what? The root cause is a racist culture in the hinterlands metastasized among certain militant groups who recruit. Third, unless we rule the world, or have the patient in restraints, we are unlikely to deal with any root causes, real or imagined. I cannot lift Haiti out of poverty, nor rid the Arab world of its anti- semitism. Fourth, while we fret over root causes, we may fail to notice that the bad guys don't much care that we are sensitive, and will blow our heads off anyway. The French are probably shocked that they did not get much credit for opposing the United States, but are threatened with attack over the veil issue anyway.