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I think as part of the war effort a portion of the war funds should go to translate on a daily basis all major Arabic media stories from television and newspaper and then publish/broadcast those in the American media or perhaps a new channel devoted solely to that. The American people would see first hand what type of mentality we're dealing with and the apologists of these murderers would have a whole lot harder time trying to defend these countries.

In London news stands and kiosks there are many Arabic language newspapers that call for the destruction of the US and the West on a regular basis but the average Londoner walks right past these papers and their headlines without giving it a thought because they can't read the Arabic script/language. How different would their reaction be if they could see it in plain old English- the calls for Britain to be turned into a Muslim state and a Muslim flag flown on Downing Street Number 10.

In the end this would be a weapon with two prongs. On the one hand, it would serve to better educate and unite American and Western opinion on the evils of the enemy we're dealing with and on the other, if the Arabs were smart they'd have to tone their rhetoric down and change the way they do the news which would have a dampening effect on radical Muslim/Arabic opinion.

I think as part of the war effort a portion of the war funds should go to translate on a daily basis all major Arabic media stories from television and newspaper and then publish/broadcast those in the American media or perhaps a new channel devoted solely to that.

Totally agree. When we've been in Greece, we can read the English version of Greek newspaper - why not do the same with the Arab news?

I also agree with your views. It would be nice to see Arafart's rants in Arabic (as well as what other Arabs are saying) published in English on a daily basis.