Congressional candidates expressed very different views on how to keep America safe from terrorism, but University students on campus were also split on the important election-year issue.
Kate Anderson, a junior who plans to study interior architecture, said the best way to keep America safe from terrorism is “to get Bush out of the White House.” Anderson said it’s important to know who has weapons of mass destruction, but the best way to combat terrorism is for the United States to not inflame tensions in the world in the first place.
“We are capitalistic, imperialistic jerks to a lot of countries,” she said.
Junior Josh Tucker, who is studying international relations, said he supports what President Bush is doing now and that it’s a narrow view to think we should focus solely on Osama bin Laden.
Tucker said some degree of job outsourcing to poorer countries helps prevent terrorism because it improves the underdeveloped country’s economy and brings it into the modern world, giving its people a stake in a modern economy. The best way to combat terrorism in the long run is to encourage situations where it’s impossible for terrorism to flourish, he said.
Andrew Fick, a first-year graduate student of marriage and family
therapy, said the United States needs to have a cooperative effort to fight terrorism.
“I think it’s important to have a strong military, but not necessarily wield it around,” Fick said, adding that America should be fighting to win the support of other nations and peoples, not fighting with guns and bullets.

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