Without a job, the become Jihadis.
You’re seriously going to try using that logic? “Give us your economic activity... or else we’ll become terrorists!” Jeez, you “free traders” are really scraping the bottom of the barrel now.
Yea, that makes a boatload of sense. Next thing they could say is “Give us money for doing nothing... or else we’ll become terrorists!”
Oh wait... I’m having a flashback. The excess of my youth is catching up to me... I seem to remember some peanut farmer named Jimmy Carter who did that with the Egyptians and Israelis in the 70’s. Look at how that’s turned out... billions of dollars per year, and it doesn’t seem to be working. Egypt is now the largest population country in the middle east controlled by Islamist forces.
Uh oh, now I’m seeing Jerry on stage in the 80’s, just before his diabetic coma... and I’m flashing on Iran-Contra, where we supplied cash and TOW missiles to the Iranians to get hostages... and they’re still sponsors of terrorism. Oh, and the Iranians kidnapped more Americans to replace those they let go under the “deal.”
Oh, and wait... the LSD continues to wreck my brain and I’m having MORE flashbacks. Kids, don’t drop acid, it causes you to remember really unpleasant stuff. I seem to recall some yahoo named “Bush” who poured money, blood, jobs and economic development by the boatload into Afghanistan, and they continue to pump out terrorists apace. Hell, they won’t stop taking a crap in the middle of the street according to gun buddies who have served there. Even after we US taxpayers have paid for public sanitary facilities to be built (and made jobs for the locals to build them), they keep crapping in the middle of the street by hiking up their man dresses in public.
Right now, we’re pouring money by the trainload into crapholes all over the middle east, and terrorism is gaining, not losing ground. Heck, lots of the money and arms we’re shipping into the middle east are ending up directly in the hands of the terrorists.
OK, here’s the summary of my flashbacks: Giving them jobs, money, economic development, whatever you want to call it... won’t prevent terrorists from arising.
The two low-rent Muslims in Massachusetts that bombed the marathon had been given (as a family) over $100K in welfare over the years by the taxpayers... and still they bombed the marathon. They had a cushier, more comfortable existence than they were ever, EVER going to have in their third world dungheap of a homeland, and still they killed people here.
Call me Nostradamus, because I’m going to make a prediction based on past experience that pumping money into third world cesspools doesn’t prevent terrorism.
Want to prevent people from becoming terrorists? Kill them. It works every time. Dead bodies, despite lurid depictions to the contrary by Hollywood and some idiot marketing twits in the gun industry, don’t move.