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To: Road Walker who wrote (237131)	6/14/2005 11:34:16 AM
From: RetiredNow	Respond to of 1577332

VERY good article. I think this is a classic example of how we should be thinking about the war on terrorism. In my line of work, I use a lot of quality engineering concepts, including measurement and root cause analysis. What this author has done is essentially that. He's using a measurement based approach to get at the root causes. It's particularly interesting in that it seems to point out something contradictory to what our common sense would tell us. I wish we had smarter leaders. If we did, then they'd be doing this type of analysis and then spending good money on the areas that are the biggest risks, which would increase our overall effectiveness in the war on terror.

To: Road Walker who wrote (237131)	6/14/2005 10:44:35 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577332

IT is one of the widespread assumptions of the war on terrorism that the Muslim religious schools known as madrassas, catering to families that are often poor, are graduating students who become terrorists. Last year, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell denounced madrassas in Pakistan and several other countries as breeding grounds for "fundamentalists and terrorists." A year earlier, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld had queried in a leaked memorandum, "Are we capturing, killing or deterring and dissuading more terrorists every day than the madrassas and the radical clerics are recruiting, training and deploying against us?" Given the author's suggestion of a misunderstanding and assuming its true, it makes you wonder how committed Bush really is to the war on terrorism, notwithstanding all his rhetoric. From the get go, it appears there has never been the kind of planning and attention to detail that would be needed in such a war. In fact, the lack of attention to detail has been confirmed in both the Downing St. Memo and Blair's other dossiers. Do you think its intentional........that the war on terrorism really is simply a front for the things their ideology wants to accomplish, or rather an example of the nature of the people who are in charge including Bush? ted