<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Carl Meyer wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE> <blockquote dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">We should not even attempt to satisfy Bin Laden.  We should make him unable to find recruits by assuring that U.S. foreign policy is not the cause of despair for billions of people. Paul Larudee Assurances will not placate them</blockquote> </blockquote> To assure = to make sure that, not to reassure.  So you think that we should continue to maintain the alliance between greedy U.S. companies and corrupt rulers in Indonesia, China, Saudi Arabia, Latin America, Africa, etc., so that women and children are forced to work 70 hour weeks in dangerous conditions for pennies per hour?  That we should provide these rulers with sufficient arms to prevent their people from rising out of oppression?  That this has nothing to do with their sentiments toward America? The Palestinians want to push the Israelis into the sea and the Israelis want to push the Palestinians into the sea.  Which side is succeeding?  Which side are we helping to make the other disappear?  You think their resentment is due to jealousy? Paul </body> </html>