[Steve Van Doorn]

Just fear mongering or does it have an element of truth?

What is your take on this?

thanks

[JasonC]

It's nonsense. There already is war in some of the poorest places of course. And there may well be war in others, as men test Obama and his pacifism. But the economic crisis has nothing to do with any of it. If the boom were ongoing and commodity prices in the stratosphere, Iran gets nukes that much quicker, Russia gets that much stronger, etc.

Men are always seeking causes for the actions of evil men besides those evil men's own evil, and the moral weakness and inaction of better men or their leaders. It is a fool's errand. Evil men will do evil in good times or bad, whenever the fancy and the opportunity strike. And weak willed men will let them, whether because they feel too poor to do something about it or too well-off to care.

Prosperity and poverty are alike reasons not to act for the weak-willed, and occasions that require it from the strong willed. They thus have nothing proper to do with it. But there are men who will think anything rather than admit such blatant moral differences drive the world.