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http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Arti cle_Type1&c=Article&cid=1129672212662&call_pageid=968332188492&col=96879397 2154&t=TS_Home&DPL=IvsNDS%2f7ChAX&tacodalogin=yes Oct. 18, 2005. 06:40 PM West can fight terror by sharing prosperity: Clinton FROM CANADIAN PRESS Western nations can defuse the terrorist threat that looms over wealthy countries by sharing their prosperity with the half of humanity that feels the system "is rigged against them," former U.S. President Bill Clinton said today. Security policies alone will never thwart the destructive ambitions of terrorist groups like Al Qaeda, Clinton told an audience attending a motivational seminar in Toronto. "We have no excuse now for not building a world with more partners and fewer terrorists," he said. "We cannot kill, jail or occupy all of our enemies, we cannot have a security policy only." Clinton, in Toronto during a speaking tour of three Canadian cities that ends Wednesday in Calgary, spoke of his vision of a more secure and equitable world. "We have to find a way to reach out to the half of the people in the world who think we don't care about them and, in fact, that we've got the system rigged against them," he told the audience, many who paid as much as $1,300 to attend the day-long event. "Unless we can do this we can never hope to build a world totally free of terror, or dangerous weapons, or human conflict." Non-governmental organizations and the Internet will be instrumental in allowing citizens of western countries to affect real change in the developing world, he said. Clinton noted that charitable donations from individuals, when taken together, outstripped those of governments during the relief effort in the wake of tsunamis that ravaged southeast Asia last year. Clinton also talked about Toronto's SARS crisis in 2003, which he said illustrated the political power of the Internet. "When people in Canada were terrified about (SARS) in the beginning, the Chinese government was denying that it was such a big deal," he said. The people of China jammed their government's website, demanding to know the truth about the threat the disease posed. "The government heard them, and a terrible calamity was avoided. An epidemic that could have killed tens of thousands of people was shut down." That power will soon enable individuals to bring prosperity to the developing world, he noted. "We know how to promote economic growth through aid trade and debt relief. We know how to get the 130 million children who aren't in school in school," Clinton said. "You have the power now to do things citizens in the entire history of humanity have never been able to do, because of the rise of the Internet and the rise of the non-governmental organizations." Tuesday's speech differed little from the one the former U.S. president delivered the night before in London, Ont., save for observations on the Canada-U.S. softwood lumber dispute that were weaved into what was billed as a discussion of U.S.-Canadian relations. Clinton has translated his gifts as an orator into a lucrative career, commanding about US$150,000 per engagement. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Nat-International/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
