[johniegrad]

There is no fault to be assigned to Arab world poverty. There is only responsibility to be assigned to Western success. The sooner people understand that wealth is not a limited asset that is distributed unfairly but rather the product of effort and success, the sooner they may be inclined to take responsibility for their own success. People can create their own wealth without having to try to take it from others.

[JCG]

There is no fault to be assigned to Arab world poverty.

Maybe.  But the $19 billion Saddam Hussein gets in oil revenues each year would save those starving children he's propagandizing about -- if he wasn't spending it on himself and weapons.

As long as Arab people believe the dictates of tyrants, royalty and clergy to be better than self determination and freedom, they will be poor.

America's Fifth Column ... watch PBS documentary JIHAD! In America
Download 8 Mb zip file here (50 minute video)

[PoisedWoman]

People can create their own wealth without having to try to take it from others.

I know a Lebanese family that's been in the USA for three generations. Grandpa made a huge fortune here. HUGE. They're lovely people. Very charitable, build hospitals for their communities, etc. My friends, I thought. BUT! When I read a publication put out by a Lebanese association, it featured an article on how awful it was that they were cut off from selling opium from Lebanon. And in a conversation at their dinner table, this highly educated millionaire family discussed how unfair it was that they could not add to their fortune with drug sales. Incredible!

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