To: nuconvert; Pan_Yans Wife
"For it's becoming clear now that poverty wasn't what caused a group of middle-class and reasonably well-educated Middle Easterners to fly three airplanes into buildings and another into the ground. It was, rather, resentments growing out of the absence of representative institutions in their own societies, so that the only outlet for political dissidence was religious fanaticism."
5 posted on
02/12/2004 5:58:40 PM PST by
Luis Gonzalez
(The Gift Is To See The Trout.)
To: Luis Gonzalez
"authoritarian regimes throughout the Middle East support terrorism indirectly by continuing to produce generations of underemployed, unrepresented, and therefore radicalizable young people from whom Osama bin Laden and others like him draw their recruits."
This is exactly what's happening in Indonesia.
20 posted on
02/12/2004 6:49:15 PM PST by
nuconvert
("Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?")
To: Luis Gonzalez
The article is fascinating. Bush has charted a historical course.
33 posted on
02/12/2004 9:59:40 PM PST by
Pan_Yans Wife
(Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'--- Kahlil Gibran)
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