Former UPI President Shares Views on Terrorism

“One has to be irredeemably myopic not to see that the breeding grounds of transnational terrorism are in regions that are impoverished and where 60 percent of the population is less than 21 years of age,” he said. Now editor-at-large of the Washington Times, de Borch-grave noted that terrorism has traditionally been “the weapon of choice of the weak against the strong” and acknowledged President George W. Bush’s statement that poverty does not transform poor people into terrorists and murderers. “But despair breeds violence among the helpless and hopeless,” de Borchgrave said. “The ever-worsening misery of the Palestinians in those refugee camps does indeed beget terrorism.”

source: http://www.bakerinstitute.org/Pubs/bipp200302_13.html