If He Had Trains, They’d Be On Time
Charles Johnson
Fri Dec 20, 2002 at 9:53 am PST • Views: 313
Senator Patty Murray tells high school students the US needs to learn to be a “better neighbor” to the world—like Osama bin Laden.
“We’ve got to ask, why is this man (Osama bin Laden) so popular around the world?,” said Murray, who faces re-election in 2004. “Why are people so supportive of him in many countries … that are riddled with poverty?
“He’s been out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day care facilities, building health care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful. We haven’t done that.
“How would they look at us today if we had been there helping them with some of that rather than just being the people who are going to bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan?”
Murray said she doesn’t know where she comes down on that guns-or-butter question, and building infrastructure in Third World countries would “cost a lot of money, and we have schools here and health care facilities here that are really hurting.”
“War is expensive too,” she said. “Your generation ought to be thinking about whether we should be better neighbors out in other countries so that they have a different vision of us.
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