On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 12:09:49AM -0500, John D. Giorgis wrote: > It seems clear to me that truly *winning* the war on terrorism is > going to require eliminating the environments of oppression and > ignorance that have bred the lies, which fuels the desperation that > underlies the decision to turn to terrorism. This will require > bridging the "freedom defecit" in the Arab world, and bringing the > Arab people into the world of the free flow of information and > participation in governance.
... > In the long term, only a fundamental change in Iraq to a free and open > democracy will truly be able to turn the tide in favor of eventual victory > in the War on Terror. Perhaps a good start would be to stop putting Arabs in prison and denying them rights to a lawyer and a fair trial that your heroes surely consider part of the greatness of the free American system...just not for the Arabs... -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
