OT: War Bill, write your congress......

[geoschmo]

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Originally posted by dogscoff:
See how many suicide bombers Bin Laden can recruit after *that*.

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The old "Hearts and Minds" tactic 'eh? Well, it's a wonderful idea on a purely humanitarian level, but it isn't going to have an effect on global terrorism.

The Black Tuesday Hijackers weren't poor Afghanis. At least most of them weren't. I haven't examined every name on the list. The notable ones were Saudi and Egyptian nationals. And they weren't even poor. At least a couple of them were actually believed to have been commercial airline pilots at one point. Now maybe Egyptian and Saudi Airline pilots don't make as much as American airline pilots, I really don't know. But I doubt they were on the level of starving poor dirt farmers before Bin Laden pulled them out of their squalor and sent them against the Great Satan America.

For that matter Bin Laden himself is from a rich oil family.

Poverty and starvation doesn't breed terrorism. Hatred does.

Geoshmo