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To: SARMAN who wrote (272253)	12/28/2009 6:21:49 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

Those militants were defeated in Egypt, Algeria, Syria, etc. The people do not want them. Of course most people don't want the extremists. Most people are moderates, tolerant, and primarily interested in improving their own personal lives and those of their children. I'd submit that most Afghanis didn't want the Taliban, but they got them anyway. And once they had them, the Taliban began indoctrinating their children, programming and brainwashing them in their militant interpretations of Islam. We've all seen something similar with regard to other forms of racial/social hatred and prejudice. I had cousins growing up in "lily white" towns in America who thought nothing of referring to Black Americans as "Niggers".. One of my younger cousins had never actually seen a black person, yet still held bigoted views towards them. This was obviously learned behavior, either from their schooling, or their parents and friends. So who's to blame?? The kids, or the people who educate them? We can correct what these clerics and leader teach, but unfortunately instead of proving their teaching wrong, we are enforcing their teachings. We can do a better job, we can win the hearts and minds of people, yet, because of our greed, we opt not to. How did we manage to correct racial segregation in our schools? Was military force utilized to enforce integration policies? You can't control the education system unless you have people and supervisors on the ground monitoring their policies and curriculum. We were forced to do it in our own country, and to a certain extent it's going to require international presence and pressure, to insure that militant policies are not indoctrinated into the minds of children. Hawk