Here's a link I think you especially will find interesting. Not in the you want to leave the US kind of interesting, just the I've heard this before kind of interesting:

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/453860p-381809c.html

>>Welcome to outside-the-bubble world. After reading the article, i'm a bit confused. The author states....
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>>And yet, despite abundant evidence to the contrary, liberals continue to imagine that Muslim terrorism springs from economic despair, lack of education and American militarism.
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>>But just today Bush linked radicalism with hopelessness and illiteracy...
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>>"Laura believes strongly in the power of literacy to change societies. And that's really what we're here to talk about. The capacity of -- the simple act of teaching a child to read, or an adult to read has the capacity to transform nations and yield the peace we all want." the president said at the White House Conference on Global Literacy being hosted in New York by the first lady."
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>>"After all, a literacy initiative will help spread prosperity and peace. One reason radicals are able to recruit young men, for example, to become suicide bombers, is because of hopelessness. One way to defeat hopelessness is through literacy, is to giving people the fantastic hope that comes by being able to read and realize dreams. Reading will yield the peace we want."
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>>So if more people can read (which will "spread prosperity and peace"), we'll either have less "suiciders" if you listen to Bush, or we'll just have more-literate suiciders according to the author.
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>Hey, even Bush's voters can read. Much good did that do.
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>Literacy is just not enough.