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Originally Posted by ArtificialBrandon
I'm not saying we shouldn't soften our image a bit, but the idea that anything other than attacking the "root causes" amounts to pure thuggery is based on intellectual snobbery.
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It is not based on intellectual snobbery. It is simple arithmetic. There are more poor people than rich people. If western countries continue only to concentrate on 'shock and awe' military campaigns, and do not make significant efforts to build a world where social justice is more than a feel-good catchphrase, then we might as well give up trying to catch Osama Bin Laden. We'll have a whole generation who will have grown up admiring al Qaeda and others of their ilk.