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An editorial in yesterday's New York Times, titled `The Unkept Promise,' takes
the United States to task for maintaining subsidies and trade barriers that
favour domestic agriculture, while promoting the value of free trade and
globalisation in other sectors of industry.  This is the sort of self-centred
duplicity that has bred so much antipathy for the United States in less
developed nations.  The poverty, desperation, and hatred bred by such
transparently unfair trade policy translate directly into recruitment for
anti-US terror groups.  In order to protect the long-term security of the
United States and the rest of the world, I urge you to apply the United States'
doctrine of free trade to agriculture as aggressively as it has been applied in
other industries.  Economic fairness, more than any militarily based strategy,
has the potential to defuse terrorist tinderboxes within a generation.