[araine901]

Well my friend, until it seems logical to strap explosives to ourselves and willingly blow up civilans and avoid military targets, in the name of god, we will never understand the true roots of terrorisim. As a memebr of the armed forces I understand the reasoning in attacking military targets. as horrific as it was I did not have a problem with the terrorists attacking the Pentigon, It is a military target. I take great exception in the choice of the WTC. That had absolutly no military value. As you can see I will never be able to see eye to eye with the terrorist. I suspect you dont either.

Now as to the roots point, if you are impoverished and have nothing better to live for than to die as someelses minion than life sucks. You dont see too many suicide bombers that are rich. Yes there are rich terrorists and sponsors of terror. But the rich ones let the poor ones die becuase they have nothing to live for. But if you improve thier living conditions and give them somthing to live for than you reduce the chances for youth to grow into terrorists. Its similar to the gang mentality, where they will do anyting for those that give them what they cant get in the world becuase they feel there is no oppertunity. In the 80's-90's this happend in Poland and a disease spread through the iron curtian called rising expectations that the soivet union could not meet with thier idiolgy. If by chance we succeed and Iraq becomes a thriving democracy where people can make as much as they want to, what will the neighboring countries that live in squaler want. You guessed it, a better life.

there is a book written by Joel Rosenthal called "the last Jihad" that discuses a hypothetical war with Iraq and a hypothetical plan for peace in the middle east. It was written a few years ago and I would bet that Pres Bush read it (well maybe he had to read to him, you know how those yale grads score on IQ tests) as well. If you havent read it, you should.

PS: I know my grammer and spelling suck, you have commented on it before, I apologize but I was in special ed during some of the developmental years of my life and missed some valuble learning. I will continue in my attempt to improve.