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p> ROOT CYNICISM br> Re: Philip Klein's Obama in the Granite State : /p> p>Mr. Klein criticized Barack Obama's comparison of increased foreign aid to the Marshall Plan, reminding us that we only instituted the plan after defeating the Nazis. I would remind him that the Marshall Plan existed to prevent repetition of the past: the dangerous coalescence of poverty and a hateful-yet-charismatic leader. Obama's valid point is that the terrorists are a small percentage of the population, but are burgeoned yearly by the region's severe poor who lack residual purpose in their lives beyond sparking a suicidal explosion to kill a few foreigners. Obama realizes that such desperate decisions can only stem from a confluence of both (1) a lack of other options and (2) the proximity of a target some local imam designated as the cause of your troubles: in this case, U.S. soldiers . Obama accurately identifies poverty as the source of the first cause, and the true fuel for radicalization. In doing so, he understands the Marshall Plan's purpose: the evasion of another bellicose Hitler taking power in a poor country whose economy never recovered from war. If we secure leadership that understands this economic undercurrent in the trend towards middle-eastern radicalization, we can militarily battle existing terrorists while allocating foreign aid that shifts the economic equation for the region's poor away from radical madrassas. br> -- Erem Boto /p>

In the piece by Phillip Klein about Mr. Obama, Mr. Klein writes, "Obama has pointed out in recent campaign appearances that, "we are just 16 votes short from bringing this war to a close.'" This demonstrates Mr. Obama's naivete and inexperience beyond any doubt. What Mr. Obama does not know, or chooses to ignore, it that wars are not "ended" by votes.

p>There are only two ways to "end" a war, win it or lose it. You either defeat your enemy, or surrender to him. Mr. Obama, along with way too many so-called "leaders" in the Democrat party, want to lose. He, and they, would have to improve to rise to the level of despicable. br> --

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