The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #39982   Message #570596
Posted By: Amos
12-Oct-01 - 12:46 PM
Thread Name: BS: Economic Roots of Terrorism
Subject: RE: BS: Economic Roots of Terrorism
I submit ithat if there were a benevolent (meaning wishing well toward the citizens) government in Afghanistan, and we took the trouble to export our best productgs -- the Small Business Administration, the venture capital model, the belief in accomplishment, the general respect for a free market bounded by a code of conduct, some kind of balance between enterprise, profit and law, and so on...the motivations for terrorism would fade very quickly as individuals began to discover a better path toward survival.

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