<HTML>In a message dated 9/15/01 2:36:01 PM Central Daylight Time, cmpiano@home.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">what, if anything, would satisfy bin Laden.</BLOCKQUOTE> 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 But, Paul, if your solution is applied and fails with more and more recruits arriving perhaps the real cause of the problem will be seen. Assurances will not placate them when the real problem is jealousy.  They are jealous of our success, way of life and standard of living.  As is common, jealousy attempts to destroy that which it is jealous of rather than making the effort to emulate the success etc.   So, if terrorism continues, what do you propose to counteract it?  Should we then lower our standard of living etc. to their level just to keep the peace?  Sorry, I pass.   Carl Meyer  Assoc. PTG </BLOCKQUOTE> I hate to disagree with you on this, Carl, but the Arab world is not jealous of our freedom and independence. You can't be jealous of something you don't understand. The Muslim religion does not allow freedom like we are used to. Their whole way of life is so totally different from ours. Just as we don't understand their way of life, they don't understand our way of life.   I agree with Paul that the reason the Muslims don't like us is because we have taken what is theirs.  But instead of working with us to get proper compensation, like the current Saudi government is doing, they (bin Laden, and his followers), want us gone, out of there, period. Further more, they don't think Israel should be there either. And since we are not leaving on our own accord, they are trying to force us out. As I responded to Paul in another post, if America, both the government and business, pulls out of the Middle East, Israel will be gone, and the worl'd dependence on oil will disappear. And the world, much less the United States, cannot afford that. A peaceful solution to this problem is for bin Laden to admit he is wrong, and apologize for the attacks. And when that happens, you and I will agree on gun control. Wim </HTML>