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Sent 1: In short, the United States has to help defeat an ideology, not just a group of people, and we must do so under difficult circumstances.
Sent 2: How can the United States and its friends help moderate Muslims combat the extremist ideas?
Sent 3: Recommendation: The U.S. government must define what the message is, what it stands for.
Sent 4: We should offer an example of moral leadership in the world, committed to treat people humanely, abide by the rule of law, and be generous and caring to our neighbors.
Sent 5: America and Muslim friends can agree on respect for human dignity and opportunity.
Sent 6: To Muslim parents, terrorists like Bin Laden have nothing to offer their children but visions of violence and death.
Sent 7: America and its friends have a crucial advantage-we can offer these parents a vision that might give their children a better future.
Sent 8: If we heed the views of thoughtful leaders in the Arab and Muslim world, a moderate consensus can be found.
Sent 9: That vision of the future should stress life over death: individual educational and economic opportunity.
Sent 10: This vision includes widespread political participation and contempt for indiscriminate violence.
Sent 11: It includes respect for the rule of law, openness in discussing differences, and tolerance for opposing points of view.
Sent 12: Recommendation: Where Muslim governments, even those who are friends, do not respect these principles, the United States must stand for a better future.
Sent 13: One of the lessons of the long Cold War was that short-term gains in cooperating with the most repressive and brutal governments were too often outweighed by long-term setbacks for America's stature and interests.
Sent 14: American foreign policy is part of the message.
Sent 15: America's policy choices have consequences.
Sent 16: Right or wrong, it is simply a fact that American policy regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and American actions in Iraq are dominant staples of popular commentary across the Arab and Muslim world.
Sent 17: That does not mean U.S. choices have been wrong.
Sent 18: It means those choices must be integrated with America's message of opportunity to the Arab and Muslim world.