Robert Wade

[Paul Prescod]

Robert Hunter Wade:
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> Slow economic growth and vast income disparities breed cohorts of
> partly educated young people who grow up in anger and despair. Some
> try by legal or illegal means to migrate to the west; some join
> militant ethnic or religious movements directed at each other and
> their own rulers. But now the idea has spread among a few vengeful
> fundamentalists that the US should be attacked directly.

It is incredible how everybody knew about September 11 before it
happened. What I mean to say is that people who were pro-gun before
September 11 demonstrated how September 11 was a result of gun control.
People who are anti-globalization can demonstrate how it is a result of
globalization. Pro-democracy people demonstrate how it is a result of a
lack of democracy in middle-eastern countries.

It must be very frustrating for Osama Bin Laden. No matter what he says
about why he did what he did, people choose to interpret the events in a
manner that support their pre-existing political positions.

Terrorism does NOT spring from the poorest countries of the world:

Timothy McVeigh: US
Shoko Asahara: Japan
Al Quiada: mostly Saudi Arabia
Richard Reid (Shoe Bomber): Britain
Basques: Spain
IRA: Northern Ireland

Terrorism stems from a sense of humiliation and a fear that a culture is
going to be subsumed in some larger culture. Poverty has little to do
with it.

 Paul Prescod