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I've never read Karen Hughes before, but she does a good job of summing up perhaps the one sure path for the world to win the war on terrorism. It's depressing, because the path has no obvious recipe for the 'regular guy', but there are people that know. There are grassroots specialists, and historians, and most importantly, there are passionate, decent people. That was the driving sentiment when protests against slavery were heard before our constitution was even written. That was the driving force for MADD. Some times in history people across civilizations look in their mirror and recognize that they've been lying to themselves.

They realize that there is only one decent and logical thing to do for a species that wants to survive it's flaws, and it stands up in groups, then masses, then societies at large, and says 'enough is enough'. No, we don't need to kill every terrorist, but we need enough honest people to physically, or politically, shut down the education and propaganda machines that are educating children to be next generation's terrorist. Millions of Americans grew up with parents that were prejudiced against blacks, indians, irish, etc., but by breaking the education cycle, as a society we began graduating larger and larger classes that shed the failing ideologies of their parents.

"Five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, one essential ingredient is still lacking in our international response to terrorism: the concerted moral outrage of everyday citizens of every faith and country.

The names of the people murdered that morning read like a roll call of the world's family: Ahmed, Alonso, Chung, Fazio, Fitzgerald, Goldstein, Gonzalez, Jablonski, Mbaya, McSweeney, Mohammed, Rizzo, Wallendorf and Zukelman. The victims, citizens of more than 90 countries, included a young Muslim woman, seven months pregnant, on her way to attend a friend's wedding; an Iranian grandmother who had overcome her fear of flying to visit her grandsons in Boston; a German businessman in New York to attend a meeting. His son, 4 at the time, said, “If the terrorists knew how much we love Papa, they wouldn't have flown the plane into the tower.”

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