Anti-americans everywhere

[calbert at hslboxmaster.com]

> And in the
> long run, the most effective way to eradicate suicide attackers is to
> eradicate the causes of terrorism.
> 
> This is a sensitive issue. Nobody - repeat, nobody - could ever
> deserve what happened to the people in New York and Washington, and
> nothing excuses the attackers. But that does not mean we must submit
> to the fundamentalism which says that merely to suggest terrorism is
> rooted in political and economic factors is anti-American or an
> offence to the victims.
> 
> Not a bit of it. The Middle East is full of terror groups and full,
> too, of poverty, suffering and political repression. To say the two
> are unconnected is fanciful. Downtrodden, uneducated Arab boys on the
> street are far more likely than their comfortable, educated
> counterparts to see suicide bombers as warrior heroes and role models.
> 
> Somehow - and it won't be easy - we must ensure that they acquire a
> stake in the world. Only then will they stop seeing the West as an
> enemy intent on exploiting them. And to do that, of course, we must be
> sure it isn't.

Does this jibe with the biography, as we are beginning to learn of it, 
of Mohammed Atta? From the looks of it, he came from better than 
middle class origins in CAIRO. Neighbours and contemporaries 
werer consistent in their description of Atta as a very focused and 
serious student, extremely polite and well mannered. Atta did not 
spend any meaningful time on the West Bank - he left Egypt for 
West Germany.....

Is it really likely that he is carrying "water" for the down trodden - or 
is it more likely that he is a "general" in a ideological war?


love,
cfa