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Originally posted by Sparhawk
The fact remains that until we start working on the root causes like poverty and gross lack of education in the Mid-East and elsewhere, you're going to continue to see women getting killed for committing adultery, men killed for being homosexual, children abandoned for having deformities, etc etc etc. Engaging these countries with increased aid to fight poverty and ignorance stops the potential terrorists, while at the same time using military and police aid to root out the current ones. This White House is doing a decent job at the latter problem, and a half-assed job at the former.
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I agree with you here. This method takes a long time to show any results. I think the Bush Administration has done a great job with short-term military solutions in the war on terror, but the long term solutions take a long time to yield, and as of yet its hard to say. Education is the key to long-term success in rooting out terror. As global communication increases with this region of the world, education will also increase when people are no longer subject to short-sighted propaganda about the West being so evil.
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