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Old 05-19-2009, 04:21 PM  
kane
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I actually will defend this spending.

A few years ago when Israel rolled into part of Lebanon and blew up parts of a city there was something dramatic that happened at the end of it. After the fighting was over there were a lot of people with destroyed homes. Members of Hamas and Hezbollah came up to these and handed them cash to help them rebuild/relocate and told them they would help them get their lives back in order. When they do that who do you think these people are going to then later side with or be faithful to?

We are involved in fighting terrorism and sometimes this means innocent people's homes get destroyed or we run them out of the places they were living. If we do nothing they will hate us and we gain nothing because they will then have more reasons to side with the terrorist. If we at least help them and show them we are not terrible people we might have a chance with them.

The war against terrorism will not be won with a gun. The war will be won with a book and a smile and a handshake. If we can help educate people and show them we are not monsters and help them when they need it and help open their eyes to a different view of the world maybe we can help stop the creation of future terrorist. If we insist on just blowing everything in our path up we will kill terrorist for sure, and we will create just as many new terrorist as we kill.
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