petertdavis
Member
Do they want to kill us because we're not one them?
I see a lot of journalistic reporting that tends to make us believe that peope resort to terrorism because the rich countries have abused them so much. I don't really buy into that. I can believe that people would become revolutionary because of being taken advantage of by a richer nation, but I don't see people strapping bombs to themselves, or flying airplanes into buildings, because someone with more wealth and power didn't pay a fair price for their products and services. Fanatical religion, OTOH, makes a plausable explanation, or at least more so than the imperialism theory. If fanatical religion is the root cause of terrorism, then is regeme change and rebuilding their nations in our image really going to reduce terrorism?
I see a lot of journalistic reporting that tends to make us believe that peope resort to terrorism because the rich countries have abused them so much. I don't really buy into that. I can believe that people would become revolutionary because of being taken advantage of by a richer nation, but I don't see people strapping bombs to themselves, or flying airplanes into buildings, because someone with more wealth and power didn't pay a fair price for their products and services. Fanatical religion, OTOH, makes a plausable explanation, or at least more so than the imperialism theory. If fanatical religion is the root cause of terrorism, then is regeme change and rebuilding their nations in our image really going to reduce terrorism?