I'll read it again, thanks.


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" 
> <curtisdeltablues@> wrote:
> >
> > > I don't think you are giving the hopelessness and impotence 
> > > the 'credit' it deserves when spawning terrorism. It is not the 
> > > hopelessness and powerlessness borne of individual circumstances,
> > > or a run of bad luck, such as most of us in the wealthy and 
> > > powerful US  might imagine. 
> > 
> > Hey Jim,
> > 
> > But I thought that the 9-11 guys were anything but hopeless.
> 
> If you read beyond the first paragraph of Jim's post,
> you'll find that this is just what *he* is saying.  In
> fact, he says it in the very paragraph you just quoted--
> "It is not the hopelessness and powerlessness borne of
> individual circumstances..."
> 
> And he goes on to explain:
> 
> > It is a culture of generations of no hope, no power and no change. A
> > culture that has grown to mistrust any authority or have any
> > possibility for personal redemption, socially, culturally or
> > economically.
> >
> > This situation is fertile ground for religious extremists, seeking
> > power, who then trade the offer of meaning in the form of zealotry
> > to these hopeless people in return for their lives. Hence terrorists
> > are born.
>







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