RE: Quote of the Day: Bruce Schneier

["Alex Eckelberry" <AlexE () sunbelt-software com>]

> I would say that this is primarily the source of our problems -- our
foreign policy.

Oh, don't tell that to Rudy Giuliani.  According to his attack on Ron
Paul the other night, our foreign policy had nothing to do with 9/11.
An incredible statement. 

(I'm apolotical here folks, it's just an observation). 


Alex



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Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 12:12 PM
To: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] Quote of the Day: Bruce Schneier

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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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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet  fergdawg(at)netzero.net
ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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