A "thoughtful discussion" based on lies!
The very premise of her discussion was predicated on twin falsehoods:
1. That bin Laden was "building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day-care facilities, building health care facilities" when he was, in fact, building terrorist training camps and madrassas for the purpose of inflaming Islam against the West.
2. And, as she claims, "We haven't done that." When, in fact, we spend more on foreign aid every day than bin Laden has money in the bank.
Senator Murray and the rest of the Senate, by the way, vote on the foreign aid package every year. Is she so damn stupid that she isn't aware of what she's voting on? And consider how her "thoughtful discussion" is a direct slap in the face to all the Americans who work in these programs overseas -- who really are "building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day-care facilities, building health care facilities". And more...
At best, the Senator's "thoughtful discussion" betrays ignorance and insensibility. At worst, it has another, less flattering, name.
If Trent Lott is a "segregationist", Patty Murray is a "seditionist".
A man who had spent most of his adult life in Afghanistan with a humanitarian organization was on our local radio station (KVI in Seattle) saying Murray was completely wrong. He refuted her every point with specifics of what many organizations, plus the US government had done for the Afghans for years. We HAVE built all the stuff she credited Bin Laden with, and he had been there, done that. Kirby Wilbur, our "historian" Conservative talk show host, should go into the same schools where Murray was attempting to poison the young minds, and set the record straight. This woman is a genuine nitwit. Dumb as a rock, (but Liberal as they come).
To a dimo, a "thoughtful discussion" consists of you listening to their lies.