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29.11.01, 20:33
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Failed foreign policy
The Sept. 11 attacks on the United States were the result of decades of failed
U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. As long as repressive regimes,
including Israel, continue to receive U.S. foreign and military aid, they have
no economic incentive to change. By subsidizing these governments, American
taxpayers are subsidizing the conditions that lead to terrorism. Since we are
the chief financial backer of this oppression, we are naturally a major target
of that terrorism.
The best answer to the threat of terrorism is to leave the Middle East alone. A
withdrawal of American government aid and military forces would force the
Middle East to solve its own problems. Pulling out could also return the
billions of dollars we spend on foreign and military aid in the Middle East
every year to the American taxpayer. The sooner the U.S. government ends
taxpayer-financed international welfare to the Middle East, the greater our
chances of avoiding the next, bigger terrorist attack.
Rita Bogolub, Berwyn
