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Its people are often illiterate, uneducated, and have no hope for advancement.

Solve the problems driving terrorism: broken states, dictators, economic dependence on oil, and religous intolerance. Once you do that we will not only have an easier time against Osama, someone won't just replace him after we capture him.


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This is absolutely and completely correct.

Osama should have been a police action. He's a criminal, round him up and throw him in a dark hole for the rest of his life and then some. Have our senators vote $50 billion to this posse job, I don't care, it'd be worth it.

Then take the other $150 billion we spent on a brutal, ineffective, deceptive and poorly planned war and use it instead for economic relief in the middle east, education and literacy programs, research and development in energy, and political incentive programs.

If there's a bastard in the Middle East we don't like, he doesn't get any of our money. But maybe next time we'll avoid killing a hundred thousand people to throw this other, cruel but basically irrelevant dirtbag in prison.