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Dumb Terrorist Policy

Our strategy to defeat terrorism? None. Or dumb.

Neither major party offers a strategy to marginalize terrorist recruitment and terrorism in what Republicans want to reframe for domestic assumption as the “Long War.”

Bigger bribes, sharper shrapnel bombs, larger recruitment bonuses, and catchy rhetoric are not a winning strategy. Extra cash, muscle, and simplistic phrases may have worked in schoolyards, but not in a complex world playground.
Teams
From grade school sports through the military, winning teams:
• Attract high caliber people willing to become good team players.
• Have smart coaches who train individuals into such well rounded mental and physical shape that they consistently play at a gold winning standard.
• Execute with precision plays that consistently move their team to scoring.
• Defend so smartly that the team’s morale, strength, and pride grows.
• Build legitimate belief from the lowliest player to team leaders, coaches, and supporting institutions that the team’s goals are good.
• Win the respect -- and sometimes fear – of their adversaries, who will often copy as much of a winning team’s strategies as they can.
• Develop a following of admirers, which, even when playing in the opponent’s neighborhood, often helps their team.
• Adapt to the changes in needs, tactics, and strategies that competition brings.
• Train and nurture their young to step into a winning tradition.
• Prepare the fields of competition for fewer bloody, uncivilized battles.
Empires
Great Empire buffs will recognize that Roman Gladiator, General Maximus, built an earthshakingly good team upon these principles. Moviegoers caught a glimpse of that by watching Richard Crowe turn condemned, discarded men into a fighting team that moved the masses en-route to hastening a decaying empire’s demise.

Great empires thrive when they build good teams at all levels of life – economic, educational, and military. As their teams go, so goes their empire.

In the 21st century, America’s once superb economic, educational, and military teams are not winning applause from the masses. They are slipping dangerously low. And typical politicians aren’t pushing timely, recovery strategies. Peoples Lobby’s citizen-initiated American World Service Corps (AWSC) proposed congressional legislation is the answer to revive our teams to their once admired and winning ways.

General Anthony Zinni gives an accurate picture of today’s battlefields in his book Battle for Peace
“The real threats do not come from military forces or violent attacks; they do not come from a nation-state or hostile non-state entities; they do not derive from an ideology (not even from a radical, West-hating, violent brand of Islam). The real new threats come from instability. Instability and the chaos it generates can spark large and dangerous changes anywhere they land.” P. 214

Initially, seemingly brilliant Roman leaders thought they were consolidating their control over the masses’ hearts and minds by feeding weakened gladiators to lions, armored soldiers, and high-teched chariots. The dumbed-down, struggling, parochial masses cheered.

In the end, however, the “condemned gladiators” relied on the principles historically used to build winning teams. The condemned grew into a good team that adapted. They beat the armored gladiators. They won the masses’ hearts and minds. The public relations ploy failed. The empire fell.

“Win the crowd…”
General Maximus was told, “Win the crowd, and you will win your freedom.”
America is losing the crowd.

The images Romans pushed on their masses differed from those the condemned Syrians, Jordanians, Africans, and Mesopotamians. Muslims, and Christians, hoped would reach their followers. Our major media’s images conveyed about our gladiators differ from those the Al Jazzeras convey to their viewers.

Eleven centuries after Roman images, today’s crowds need to see different images. All nations need to win hearts sans bloodshed.

• From 1999 to 2006 America’s favorable opinion has fallen in
Canada 71% - 59%
Britain 83% - 55%
Germany 78% - 41%
Indonesia 75% - 38%
Pakistan 23% - 23% Zagby Poll

• Seventy-two percent of US Soldiers in Iraq Think the US Should Pull out within a Year.
PEW Poll, 2006

• Our Tsunami relief effort led to more favorable views of the U.S. But the goodwill generated by U.S. tsunami relief has been largely offset by the negative reactions to Bush's re-election and the continuing war in Iraq. PEW Poll, 2006

• In 21 mostly Muslim countries of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudia Arabia, Palestine, Israel, Yemen, Omar, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, Eritrea, UAR, Kuwait, Turkey, Indonesia, Somalia, and Ethiopia about 906,870,971 reside.

• How many Peace Corps volunteers (PCVs) work among them in 2006? Fifty-eight PCVs.
• One PCV for every 15,635,706 presents the building, caring, serving ideals of America.

Is America winning the crowd? Will your children have a better world to live in when the world soon tops 7 billion?

Is a 6”4” cave dweller dragging his kidney dialysis machine out-communicating and beating the American empire in an increasing number of long civil, genocidal, refugee, resource wars, because we haven’t built the right teams to win today?

General Zinni says, “We can win any battle…” But our military is not trained to win the “ultimate victory.” To win the “ultimate victory,” one must win “hearts and minds” by building world “stability.

The unstable parts? Those 70 failed or failing nations, out of the world’s 190 nations, in which about 3+ billion people struggle.

The most cost-effective means of winning hearts and minds, building stability, and reducing the need to send our soldiers into battle?
Having a million trained, can-do, peaceful Americans knights help stabilize unstable nations, and rebuild our own.

How do we do that? By helping introduce and pass Peoples Lobby’s citizen-initiated American World Service Corps (AWSC) proposed congressional legislation, America’s concerned citizenry can build world stability.

Today’s battlegrounds require strengthening existing teams that can augment our good military teams. The AWSC teams reduce the ignorance, scarcity, refugees, terrorist recruitment, and warring that creates instability. Implementing Peoples Lobby’s American World Service Corps congressional proposals to incentivize a million Americans to voluntarily serve through the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Habitat for Humanity, Head Start, Doctors Without Borders, Red Cross, International Rescue Committee, OxFam, Mercy Corps, and State Conservation Corps builds the kind of winning teams and strategies that are desperately needed today.

We need fewer maimed and dying gladiators and many more Knights of the Round Earth. Implementing America’s World Service Corps (AWSC) proposals replaces maimed gladiators with healthy teams. The AWSC is a smart, winning strategy that wins cheers and thereby reduces terrorists’ recruitment and terrorism. It can also help reduce the crisis looming over our Global Climate. http://www.WorldServiceCorps.us http://www.PeoplesLobby.us