In Reply to: poverty is gross inhuman terrorism posted by cliff on Tuesday, 11. October 2005 at 15:19 Bali Time:
""75% of the world's population live in poverty, but we have the luxury of debating the motivations of some bombers who killed a tiny fraction of a percent of the number of people who die each year from malnutrition""
yes correct, and your point is?
""The main cause of poverty is war. The other big cause is the concentration of wealth""
yes correct but what does that have to do with terrorism?
""There are starving people in the UK, US, Australia,Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and many other "wealthy" countries""
maybe but there is no need for it, is starvation of choice certainly in UK, US, OZ I have no idea about Kuwait but I doubt it.
""Poverty leads to desperation. When you are desperate, you are easily manipulated. Eliminating poverty won't eliminate the extreme notions of power-hungry people, but it will limit the number of desperate people willing to go along with the plan.""
but they aren't and haven't been poor, well not so far, maybe these recent guys are, wait and see.