Tuesday, November 09, 2004

It's the Freedom, Stupid

I hardly think that Alberto Abadie is the first to cast doubt on the “root cause” of terrorism, but I tend to agree with the following.

"A John F. Kennedy School of Government researcher has cast doubt on the widely held belief that terrorism stems from poverty, finding instead that terrorist violence is related to a nation’s level of political freedom."

and

"In the past, we heard people refer to the strong link between terrorism and poverty, but in fact when you look at the data, it’s not there. This is true not only for events of international terrorism, as previous studies have shown, but perhaps more surprisingly also for the overall level of terrorism, both of domestic and of foreign origin,” Abadie said."

“Freedom squelches terrorist violence"

Via Drudge.

Posted by John Venlet on 11/09 at 04:17 AM
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