On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Mahesh Murthy <mahesh.mur...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Actually, I find myself nodding in agreement here. > > My 'logic' is nothing more than the gut-feel that, at least in the case of > students from developing nations, the ones more driven to "do something > with > their lives" typically tend to take the more difficult / "rewarding" > engineering courses. > > Follows that they might also be the ones more amenable to what the rest of > us might call extremist dogma. > Alan Krueger had examined this in his book "What Makes a Terrorist" and come up with a similar pov. I'd reviewed the book a couple of years ago: http://indiauncut.com/iublog/article/understanding-terrorism/ -- Amit Varma http://www.indiauncut.com http://www.twitter.com/amitvarma
