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Thread #93818   Message #1809781
Posted By: Amos
14-Aug-06 - 05:03 PM
Thread Name: BS: Foreign Policy as Terror Catalyst
Subject: RE: BS: Foreign Policy as Terror Catalyst
I suspect there are many avenues of help that the US and the UK routinely perform that don't get the headlines and have become routine.

Fundamentally, education and some sort of organized steering and economic opportunity are enough to turn around a lot of bitter or alienated individuals. If their bitterness has gone so far as to send them into the arms of a fanatic teacher, it is likely to be a MUCH harder task. That's the nature of fanatacism -- it gives one a fine screen with which to filter out lots of aspects of reality and make oneself "right" about.

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