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To: GST who wrote (153460)	12/6/2004 2:34:00 PM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Arrogance? The US is the most successful country on the planet. There's nothing arrogant about leading others in the same direction. * * *

To: GST who wrote (153460)	12/6/2004 2:36:56 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Can we fight terrorism constructively? _________________________________________ By RICK STEVES SPECIAL TO THE SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER Saturday, December 4, 2004 [Editor's note: Filling in for David Horsey this week is Rick Steves, author of the "Europe Through the Back Door" books and host of the popular public television travel program, "Rick Steves' Europe."] seattlepi.nwsource.com <<...A billion Muslims throughout the world have three serious concerns: Palestine needs security and self-respect; they want the American military out of Islam; and they want control of their natural resources (to charge whatever they like for their oil). These are three basic foreign policy questions that any U.S. president could address without compromising the security and interests of America or Israel. The United States' overwhelming global dominance is unprecedented in human history. Many Muslims fear the Americanization of their culture. In addition, the United States declares natural resources (such as oil) in Muslim countries "vital to its national security." And our immense military -- as big as the rest of the world's combined and unfightable by means other than terrorism --defends U.S. access to markets and natural resources throughout the globe. It's clear that maintaining our dominance by force is costly in civil liberties, our moral standing in the world, tax dollars and human lives. So my Burning Question is: Could we more effectively fight terrorism by understanding what motivates it and then taking away the source of the anger? Wouldn't it be cheaper and wiser to just face our enemy, ask "Why?" and respond constructively?...>>