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MissMarple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-19-04 06:32 PM
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An enlightened approach to defeat Al Qaeda. US regime change
http://csmonitor.com/2004/0920/p09s02-coop.html

I think this article is calling for regime change in the US. I think most of us understand the current administration is incapable of doing this, they are just too dirty in the eyes of the world.

To Defeat Al Qaeda, US Must Build Trust of Moderate Muslims

<How must US strategy and focus change? I am not suggesting that efforts to improve intelligence or homeland security be abandoned. However, the US needs a more enlightened approach to divide the moderates from the jihadists and to remove America as scapegoat.

Above all, a new vision of America must be presented to the world, especially the Muslim world - not through a slick PR campaign, but by positioning American foreign policy on the side of justice for the Muslim world.

This serves both a long-term and a more immediate goal. The long-term goal is to demonstrate to moderate Muslims that the US is on the side of justice, not injustice. The immediate goal is to slow or stop the recruitment of new terrorists.

We all need to start thinking differently if America is to build a constructive new relationship with the Muslim world - a world comprising 57 nations and 1.3 billion people whom we don't understand, and who don't understand us.>
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