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To: TimF who wrote (128099)	4/1/2004 4:53:46 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<Even if that many Arabs wanted to leave, and their governments would let them, and they would be willing to go home after (or if we didn't care if they went home or not) it would not be politically or economically possible, and if it could be done it would cost a lot more then what we are spending In Iraq.> That is just loaded with assumptions -- most of which are pretty weak. We cannot educate everyone in Indonesia, for example, but we can and do target their future leaders. Same for Malaysia. We have had many, many students from the middle east and we should have far more. Education is by far and away our best foreign policy. There is NO ultimate military solution to terror, but through education there is hope and the prospect of creating a better world.