People Turn To Violence, Because They Have

We Love To Think This Fundamentalism And Terrorism Is All About Poverty, And, Of Course, It Has A Connection. You Can See That These People Not Only Are Poor But They Have No Outlets. These Governments Allow No Opposition. So What Do People Do? They Go To Islam. It's The Only Organizational Institution Where They Can Express Their Feelings. But It's Not About Poverty. I've Never Seen A Single Demonstration In Which The People Have Come Out With Signs Saying, "please Give Us Better Roads. Please Give Us New Prenatal Clinics. Please Give Us A New Sewage System."

Wasn't Saddam Destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi Liquidated? Didn't Milosevic Go To The Hague? All True. But Stalin Survived. Kim Jong-un Isn't Doing Too Badly, Either - Though That's Probably Because He Actually Has Nuclear Weapons, As Opposed To Iran Which Might Or Might Not Be Trying To Acquire Them And Thus Remains On The Israeli-american Target List.

Osama Bin Laden Is Very Shrewd. But He Struck Me, Even In 1997, As Being Remarkably Out Of Touch. I Remember Thinking This Does Not Look Like The Type Of Guy Who Walks To The Top Of A Mountain With A Mobile Phone And Says, "operation B, Attack."now He Is America's Number One Enemy. He's Always Wanted To Be That.

President Bush Will Come Here And There Will Be New "friends" Of America To Open A New Relationship With The World, New Economic Fortunes For Those Who "liberated" Them.

The Violence Stems From Injustice, Because People Feel They Have Been Treated Unfairly In The Middle East, Whether That Means Military Occupation, Starvation Under U.n. Sanctions, Whether It Means That They Have A Dictatorship Imposed On Them, Propped Up By The West. This Is Why People Turn To Violence, Because They Have No Other Avenue Left.