Clinton on fighting terrorism. If only we had such leadership....

[9215]

Compared to the costs of fighting a new generation of
terrorists, putting 100 million kids in school around
the world is an inexpensive proposition.
William Clinton, 2002


Just imagine what wonders this could do. Not only stop terrorism, but reduce poverty!!

[Deja Q]

1. It'll get more expensive to try to stop symptoms rather than to

stop the problem as time goes by. Bush's fascist cabal can restrict freedoms, invoke the draft, wade hip-deep in blood, set up some more gaudy photo-ops, and wave a flag when he's not scribbling his moniker all over them, but his tactics will only exacerbate problems. Not even remotely resolve them.

Clinton is quite right.

Truly awful people will always exist. But it makes more sense to reduce their numbers rather than increasing them.

[bemildred]

2. Tsk, no profit in that.

</sarcasm>

[nondeskript]

3. Just imagine...

What wonders this could have done a decade ago...

-DW

[DerBeppo]

4. exactly

this isn't a new problem, where was he with this 10 years ago? sure he didn't invade iraq, but he had no problem launching cruise missle after cruise missle.

[9215]

5. Possibly, IMO most likely, Clinton was

given BS info on Iraq. The intelligence community has been known to mislead Presidents.

[nondeskript]

6. Um... Iraq isn't really the issue here though

Its really the fact that Clinton knew terrorism was a problem (a string of attacks on US targets through the 90s erase any doubt) and most people knew what the causes were (poverty, education) and not enough was done to solve said problem.

If more had been done, there is a good chance that terrorism would not have been as severe a problem today and Bush wouldn't have been able to find a rationalization that stuck to invade Iraq with.

I guess that hindsight is 20/20 and Clinton isn't exempt from that any more than anyone else.

-DW

[glarius]

7. P.M. Pierre Trudeau said "if the wealthy countries don't do something to

improve the conditions in the poor countries, it will come home to haunt us!".....I remember when he gave this warning in the 70's....He was ahead of his time in warning about the need for aid to these countries, but he was not heeded....

[Toots]

10. One thing you need to remember ~ Congress spends the money

Clinton was at the mercy of a Republican Congress for quite a bit of his term and there is no way in hell the Republicans would allow one red cent to go toward education of foreigners, not if there is some implement of death they could build instead.

[mopinko]

9. he was hog tied

by ken starr, and a pack of rabid rethugs.

[Minstrel Boy]

8. Makes sense, but it's not in the cards.

Neo-feudalism's where it's at. That's the world that's under construction. And part of US military policy is to defend it.

In "Vision for 2020," published by the US Space Command, "the globalization of the world economy...will continue with a widening between 'haves' and 'have nots.'" As the world's poor get poorer, and grow in number, they become a prospective enemy worthy of demonization, pre-emptive strikes and occupation.