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As long as President Bush upholds the "global gag order," he can't be taken seriously in trying to alleviate world poverty as the root cause of terrorism.
All this was based on a particular theory, the post-9/11 neoconservative conclusion that the root cause of terrorism was the absence of Arab democracy.
While there is no single root cause of terrorism, my interviews with terrorists over the past five years suggest that alienation, perceived humiliation and lack of political and economic opportunities make young men susceptible to extremism.
The sticking point was how to send a moral S O S to the United States and others in the West to alleviate the social injustice that the bishops called a root cause of terrorism -- without seeming to in any way to justify terrorist attacks.
Almost all find the idea of actually doing something about it audacious perhaps even reckless.That may be why Europeans prefer to say that the root cause of terrorism is poverty or the unresolved conflict in Palestine, which they accuse Mr Bush of having dangerously neglected during his first term.
To adduce the erroneous neoconservative theory that "the root cause of terrorism was the absence of Arab democracy" (Lexington, February 5th) only serves to prove that Mr Bush was as clueless as he was ineffective in dealing with issues in the Arab world.Terrorism has long thrived in free countries.
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Re "Exploring the Flaws in the Notion of the 'Root Causes' of Terror" (Arts & Ideas pages, Nov. 17): Edward Rothstein is right to question simplistic theorizing about the "root causes" of terrorism.
None of this deals with the root causes of terrorism, of course.
This makes sorting out the motivations and root causes of terrorism that much more complex.
He also wanted to tackle the root causes of terrorism in the Middle East.
But it did not address sufficiently the root causes of terrorism.
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