Poverty and terrorism

Michael Yon:

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... They (the foreign workers in Dubai) are ever-so upwardly mobile, only the rungs on their ladders are so close together that by the time the workers die, despite the persistence of their climbing, they might have reached the roof of a tiny house. Only the unknowing believe that poverty is the birthplace of terrorism. The same poverty that drains some spirits inspires ambition in others. There is a causal relationship between terrorism and poverty but it’s the inverse of what many claim: poverty doesn’t breed terrorism, terrorism breeds and perpetuates poverty. People with resources tend to invest in stability, not anarchy.

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