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To: Road Walker who wrote (398590)	7/14/2008 10:37:24 AM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577589

Yes. It got me thinking about how Saudi Arabia, you know the country that is best friends with the Bush family, exports its radical thinking by funding Madrasas all around the world. These schools teach extremism or at the very least teach a radical brand of Islam, which makes great soil and seed for terrorist recruiting. So when we combat that with guns, we're just attacking the symptom. The root cause is how these people are getting educated in the first place. Replace their Madrasas with real schools that teach real subjects and don't teach venom against the West and you are attacking the root causes. I also like the idea of lifting up the women in those countries. Here's where my sexism shows, but in my lifetime we've always referred to women as the gentler sex. They have always acted as a restraint and civilizing influence on the male animal. Why not put that principle to good use by empowering women in the Middle East with knowledge and information and influencing them to be productive citizens of the world instead of contributors to extremists? Even in the Middle East where women aren't treated as equals, they still have a lot of influence with the men in their lives. Sounds like a good plan to me, especially when for the cost of one bomb, we can build 20 schools. That's a no-brainer from a cost/benefit analysis perspective.