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I was with you until you said: "the best way to fight the war on terror is to give people in Afghanistan, Saudui Arabia, etc. a decent life." Take this very te
by jrmurad 17y ago
I was with you until you said: "the best way to fight the war on terror is to give people in Afghanistan, Saudui Arabia, etc. a decent life."
Take this very terrorist, for instance.
- engineering student
- son of a "prominent" banker (a retired board member of his bank)
- family "mansion" in Central London
source: http://allafrica.com/stories/200912260001.html http://allafrica.com/stories/200912260001.html
Osama Bin Laden grew up extremely wealthy, Al-Zawahiri was a surgeon, etc. You think these are outliers? I could make a suggestion myself as to how I'd like to see this fought but, this being Hacker News, I'd settle for an examination of the statistics to determine cause-and-effect.
- mixmax 17y agoGood point - I was actually thinking about deleting the second paragraph before hitting submit. Maybe I should have. Poverty does seem to be a large part of the problem though. It appears that the reason Al Qaeda can gather a following is because they give people hope and a common enemy in a desolate and very poor world. If the US had sent televisions, jobs and a McDonalds on every corner to Afghanistan instead of bombs the result might have been different.