Pretty much speaks for itself:

...Murray concluded the session by challenging the students to consider alternatives to war.



"We've got to ask, why is this man (Osama bin Laden) so popular around the world?," said Murray, who faces re-election in 2004. "Why are people so supportive of him in many countries … that are riddled with poverty?

"He's been out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day care facilities, building health care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful. We haven't done that.

"How would they look at us today if we had been there helping them with some of that rather than just being the people who are going to bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan?"

Murray said she doesn't know where she comes down on that guns-or-butter question, and building infrastructure in Third World countries would "cost a lot of money, and we have schools here and health care facilities here that are really hurting."

"War is expensive too," she said. "Your generation ought to be thinking about whether we should be better neighbors out in other countries so that they have a different vision of us.

"It is a debate I think we ought to have."



Murray groused about the costs of war, then went on to inspect another mass transit funding rathole. I suppose it would be pointless to make the observation that the United States probably spends more on funding "schools, roads, infrastructure, day care facilities, health care facilities," etc. in impoverished nations than the rest of the world combined. I suppose it would also be pointless that many people under Osama's rule didn't have access to schools, day care facilities, etc. Like the women, for example. Cripes.

This person sounds like a supreme airhead.