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...most common canards of those who oppose President Bush’s strategy of reforming the Middle East is that the “root causes” of terrorism must be removed before we can expect to see any progress. The prime “root cause” bemoaned by the left has always been poverty, because people who are poor are supposedly desperate. Poor people, they say, carry out acts of violence and terror because they simply have nothing to lose—they do not fear death because life could scarcely contain more misery. However, like...
...breeds terrorism” survived for as long as it did. While the Middle East’s great wealth is not evenly spread, the average citizen’s standard of living there is considerably higher than in most parts of the world. Pakistan and Indonesia, two recent terror hotspots, likewise are not particularly wealthy but neither are they particularly poor, their incomes ranking somewhere in the middle worldwide. And, the most well-known perpetrators of terror, the thugs that carried out 9/11, were from the upper-middle class of their respective countries: they certainly did not engage...
...promise to bring liberty and freedom to the Middle East should not be viewed as some crackpot scheme or the manifestation of a bizarre messiah complex, but rather a course of action that is exceedingly common-sense. Knowing what we know now about the nature of terrorism, it seems that Bush’s ideas are not only reasonable but are in fact the only long-term solution to the problem we face. Since only freedom has been shown to reduce the incidence of both domestic and international terror, doesn’t it make the most sense...
...what went wrong last Tuesday. A host of possible explanations for Kerry’s loss have pushed to the forefront. A small sampling of my favorites include: gay marriage, “moral values,” the “success” of the war on terror and perhaps the most popular last resort of the liberal elite—the sheer stupidity of half the country. Some of the more insightful members of the left have rightly placed much of the blame on John Kerry’s almost comical awkwardness as a campaigner. His inability...
...they elected a President and no amount of wishful thinking could turn the calendar back. After a happy and lucky decade, the U.S. is locked in a war that will last the rest of our lives. "The outcome of this election will set the direction of the war against terror," Bush said Saturday in Grand Rapids, Mich. Of Kerry, he argued that if you don't even admit it's a war, you can't be trusted to fight it. Critics who saw his faith in contagious democracy as naive may have missed the point that the American people have...