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That might make too much sense. However, money isn't the problem in the middle-east. Why aren't the rich OPEC countries helping other Arabs with these issues?
Because poverty isn't the issue.
Would billions in aid have convinced the wealthy elite to stop funding terrorism? Would it have convinced billionare osama bin laden to give up the fight?
No, it would have been seen as a fat decadent nation trying to buy off enemies because we are no longer able to fight.
Besides which, they money would have gone in to the hands of the government, making a few even wealthier while the rest stayed about where they're at now (think africa, all that aid hasn't moved them up in life one damn bit).
Poverty isn't the issue. A violent religion/culture based on revenge and jihad, a population that is intentionally kept poor and pushed in to such extremes by their governments to deflect anger away from them, and a general hatred of all things western is responsible.
I didn't mean to suggest that poverty was the issue.
I feel that a gesture such as the pledge of money would be the Christian thing to do. @Love your enemy' and 'turn the other cheek', right?
It's all a bit old testament to wage war on your enemies isn't it?
Where would the political motivation for attack be if the US became a benevolent, genuine friend of Islamic nations?
Why not work hand in hand with the rich oil states to eliminate poverty and starvation in Africa?
Why not set the global standard of peace, co-operation and humanity for the rest of the world to follow?
Why?
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