Re: Quote of the Day: Bruce Schneier

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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- -- Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

> However, out in the political arena, this won't happen as long as The
> Great Unwashed are voting.  You can propose a *lot* of different "fixes"
> for the "problem" of terrorism, but *none* of them will work until you
> address the base problem, which in the case of the US is that:
>
> a) Fundamentalist Muslims find our lifestyle and culture insulting.  Most
> of them would be quite happy to let us rot in our own country if we let
> them run their country the way they want to.
>
> b) We insist on exporting our lifestyle and culture.
>
> Now, given those two setup points, how can you *possibly* expect a good
> outcome from us invading not one, but two sovereign countries and
> installing a puppet regime that we selected?

With regards to ill-will against the U.S., I would say that this
is primarily the source of our problems -- our foreign policy.

The point here is that knee-jerk reactions don't work, and
psychology plays into "Security Theater" in this regard. :-)

- - ferg

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