If we want to reduce the threat of international terrorism--especially that which is inspired by the Muslim perception that they and their faith are under assault, we should force Israel to end their brutal and illegal 41 year military occupation of Palestine. By doing so, we would also vastly improve the image of the US in the eyes of the rest of the world because that would suggest that we may finally have decided to be committed to the rule of law and to justice for the oppressed.
STOP handing Israel buckets of money and weapons with which to subjugate the Palestinian people. Demand that they withdraw from ALL lands NOT originally included in their settlement, and pay reparations to the Palestinian people. This is the ONE BIG problem we have with the world community. After this, the big issue is our wholesale support of vicious dictators, so long as they do what we want, relative to US material gain.
... as unpopular as it is... force Israel to a real solution. By definition the "Jewish" state already implies a two tiered treatment system. There should be no religious states. It gives the impression that Jews are favorites, and it doesn't give the Muslims and Christians a sense of belonging. The West Bank and Gaza Strip have roads that Jews can only travel on, from illegal outpost to illegal outpost. It's sickening... stop it already. It's as bad as we were when we killed all the Native Amer
The U.S. need to acknowledge that the 9/11 attacks were done by a Saudi-based group and had nothing to do with Iraq, distance itself from Israel and Palestine whose leaders can't or won't persuade everyone of their citizens to get along with each other, and step up looking for bin Ladin. We also need to bring fair elections back to this country on a national level; local elections seem to be run fairly.
