[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 21851]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



 RADIO FREE AFGHANISTAN WILL HELP WIN HEARTS AND MINDS OF YOUNG AFGHANS

  (Mr. KENNEDY of Minnesota asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KENNEDY of Minnesota. Mr. Speaker, I am here to applaud this 
Chamber for passing the Radio Free Afghanistan bill, because the battle 
we are in right now is not just to win this war militarily, but we have 
to win the hearts and minds of those young boys and girls playing out 
in the street or playing in the dirt and thinking about what are they 
going to be when they grow up.
  We cannot have them saying they want to grow up to be a bin Laden; 
that they want to grow up to be a terrorist. We need to have them 
thinking about wanting to grow up to be a farmer, to be a teacher, to 
be a truck driver, a doctor, and get the ideas in their head of the 
freedom that we enjoy here and have them yearning for that freedom.
  So this is a country that has spread our way of life and our 
philosophy throughout many parts of the world. We need to make sure 
they in Afghanistan know that we hold out our hearts and prayers to 
them; that there is a better life waiting for them. We need to inspire 
their young, and all the people of Afghanistan, for the future.

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