Tomorrow, a lot of Americans will adjust their TV sets to watch Super Bowl XXXVI. Also, in the coming days, people from around the world will watch the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah.
They are two major events, not just in the sports arena, but also in the economic world. Both events are multibillion-dollar generators. To broadcast a 30-second commercial during the Super Bowl will cost you $2 million. The 2002 Olympics is expected to rake in $720 million in ad revenue alone.
We are heavily guarding these events not just because they are part of the key landmarks of sports history and major entertainment events, not to mention the lives at stake, but they are also major landmarks in our capitalist society.
I’m sure the largest sports tournaments ever in the history of Afghanistan, or the Sudan or other underdeveloped countries bring nowhere near the amount of commerce generated by the United States’ sports events. These nations have very little hope. They are not free societies and have no taste of the free-enterprise system. Their economy is in shambles and their only export is terror.
Our country is made and run by the working Americans, the small business owners and the entrepreneurs. However, in the nations that sponsor and export terror, there is no avenue for enterprise. They have little hope, because they have no free markets.
Those who terrorize and go to the point of killing themselves for the overall cause of killing others clearly show they have no hope. It is the free-enterprise system that is being attacked here, because it brings hope to all.
These terrorists have no right to do what they do, so we must bring them all to justice. However, while doing so we must make every effort to find a way to bring the free market to them!
Bush has stated that we must fight terror on all fronts and not just in Afghanistan, but also all over the world. He also said that we would continue to fight this war on all fronts.
The president has said that we must fight this war economically. So, we must find ways to introduce capitalism to these Third World countries in order to make our world a better place.
The capitalist society brings hope to all, because it allows for anyone to excel and follow their dreams and hopes. It allows the ordinary citizen to follow what they want, work in the job they want and pursue that which makes them happy.
Where you see terror groups, you see loss of hope and opportunity. There are multiplied thousands of Muslims in the U.S., but most if not all are satisfied with the economic opportunities available and seek political change and development in nonviolent ways. The war on terror must include recognition of the gap that exists between the haves and the have-nots and must include some realistic plan to bring economic reform to countries locked in poverty and despair. Therefore, we must provide and urge the free-enterprise system upon these nations that have fallen victim to the parasite known as terrorism.
Our goal is to seek and destroy terror and bring these terrorists to justice, but it is also to keep terror out. So, providing free-market opportunities to these nations should be a top priority.
In Afghanistan, for instance, we have rooted terror out. A new interim government is in place and things are looking bright for the future. But we must not stop there. We must assist in a plan for private ownership of land and property and the process of mortgage and collateral that allows for the creation of commerce. We have to do this so the people will have other choices besides terrorism. They will have a place where they can follow their dreams.
Without a free market, dreams are just that – dreams. You can’t follow them or make them real; you can’t pursue that which makes you happy. Because without a free market, America is not America. This is why the Constitution did not allow the government to control the market; it only allowed oversight. We must let the market decide and let the people do what’s right.
This concept has worked in America for centuries.
The people of the world must step in and put an investment in nations where terror has been dissolved, and the governments of the free world must put an investment in these nations in order to permanently keep terror out.
