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To: GST who wrote (128212)	4/2/2004 6:38:03 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Its not a policy, its a tool to help implement policies. Its a potentially powerful tool and it doesn't have a lot of risk but its actions are slow and the results uncertain. Educated people can still be violent and/or fanatic, and they can still be enemies of the US. Also we will never educate more they a very tiny fraction of people from other countries. For education to really work for us we need to get potentially hostile countries to give their own people a good education and one that supports peace, freedom, understanding ect., more then fanaticism or hatred of the US. We have "a history of educating millions of people from other countries", but millions is a very low number in this context. Its not millions of new people each year but millions in total. Also their are hundreds of millions of Arabs, over a billion followers of Islam, and over 6 billion non-Americans in the world. Educating many people in the US is not unrealistic. Education half of Middle East, or a significant fraction of the world or even most of the future leaders of the world is. Not only because of the cost to educate so many, but also because of the difficulties involved in having so many millions of new people come to the US, and because the people who are most likely to violently oppose the US are the least likely to go to the US for an education or to send their kids their, and if they do they are the least likely for an American education to make much difference in their outlook and habits. Mohammed Atta was educated in the west even if not in the US. Plenty of other terrorists have been educated men. I'm not arguing against education but its not the panacea you paint it to be. Tim