Hi Mary Anne,

That's my philosophy. Fight fire with fire...and all that stuff.

My point was to make a US education available outside our borders - pipe it in like voice of America via the online data stream.

Young foreign rebels can log on to something catchy like "USEDONLINE.com" (US Education Online - but this dot com may be taken already)

Our online programs can be tilted pro-capitalist and democracy.

They will create secret capitalistic organizations in their marxist holdover nations!

French children will secretly learn to like and value tourists!

Terrorists will suddenly decide not to blow themselves up and say - "Hey I have a marketable skill! I should become a mercenary!"

Yes, the world will rapidly evolve...

I also see a standardized online US program as providing better structure to homeschooling.

Of course libraries have already gotten busier since the internet's arrival. I remember the good ol' days when all one would see was a few book worms and a kid looking for a book to help him in his report.

A free online program would make the demand for all these new terminals extraordinary.