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...other Muslim countries [ESSAY, Dec. 3]. But we must not let ourselves be lulled into thinking that aid alone will change feelings toward us in the Islamic world. It is not America's reaction to the atrocities of Sept. 11 that will inspire a generation of young Muslims to commit themselves to armed struggle against the West; it is the hateful preaching by the teachers of those young Muslims. We must bring the Age of Enlightenment to the Muslim world and propagandize in direct opposition to what the imams and schoolteachers are pumping into the heads of that younger generation...
...seem to be losing patience with his foreign agenda - no matter where it leads. Some 57 percent favor a "long-term war to defeat global terrorism" (32 percent want military action only against the specific groups responsible for Sept. 11). Some 73 percent think the U.S. should commit ground troops to a military effort to remove Saddam Hussein from power - if only the father had had those numbers - and 66 percent extend that license to "other countries that the Bush administration thinks are involved in international terrorism...
...Moussaoui, who made a brief court appearance Wednesday, will be arraigned Jan. 2 in Alexandria, Va. His attorneys did not request bail for him today. He's charged with conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism, aircraft piracy, destruction of aircraft, use of weapons of mass destruction, murder of U.S. employees and destruction of U.S. property...
...courage to think about the unthinkable, and Jessica Stern has it. A lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School, Stern studies those who kill innocents for political gain. While others debate theories of terrorism from the safety of the ivory tower, Stern travels the world to meet those who actually commit the acts...
...bomb Afghan cities out of a need for revenge. The foreigners in the Arab al-Qaeda forces infested Afghanistan in order to be trained to commit terrorist acts; they are not innocents. The innocents were those people who died in New York City, Washington and western Pennsylvania. Compassion is always preferable to revenge, but true compassion demands justice. THOMAS KRAEMER Woodbury...