This is great stuff and I applaud your vision in wanting to make everyone happy. Hopefully soon though, you shall awake from your coma of naievete and denial and realize the big picture.

While your are correct in stating that terrorism will never be completely defeated you are wrong in feeling that it is negotiable. It isn't. You shold read some history and if your mind is open enough, it will prove my point. It's not about an opinion, it is just factual history.

As a brief example: When Bill Clinton met with the Israeli leader whose names escapes me right now and Arafat I guess around 1997 or so and got Israel to agree to literally 97% of what Arafat wanted, Arafat refused to give in, refused to negotiate any further and literally ended the negotiations. Clinton himself has stated since then that it was then that he realized that the Palestineans (or maybe more like Arafat) didn't want peace. The problem here is that unlike the "Cold War" of yesteryear we aren't "negotiating" or "discussing" with a government or a coutry. You are proposing dealing with terrrosts and terrorist states and thinking you can actually negotiate with them. Let me save you some time and energy and tell you that it is impossible to negotiate with terrorists because that's not what they want. It's not a political debate, it is a philosophical and religious conquest on their part to rule the world and force it to bow down to their version of Islam. Sorry pal, but as long as hezzbollah and hamas and other groups are cutting the heads of Ameicans, blowing up children and women in pizza parlors and kidnapping television reporters, there is absolutely nothing to discuss. All these animals understand is warfare because that's what they do. They don't rdespect human life, themselves or you. They think they are in "Jihad" and are going to heaven with the 72 virings or whatever (no one told them that they all look like Janet Reno, not Sandra Bullock). The sooner you and the rest of the world for that matter get through your head, the better because that kind of old, aincent, Chamberlin type thinking is only making things worse.[/quote]

Steve, what you fail to realize is that the Terrorist views American Foreign Policies as Terrorist as well. Perhaps you read more on the history of terrorism from both perspectives and especially from the 7 conditions I mentioned. I do know one thing, myself and millions of other Americans lives, security and freedoms are endangered b/c of our foreing polices or rather what our elected leaders do abroad in our name.