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Defender always wins? (Was: Re: on contradictions and s

Wed Feb 16 11:12:24 PST 2005


On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Howard Brazee wrote:

> Oil rich countries also have a bunch of dissatisfied unfulfilled youth who
> are willing to become terrorists.

Iraq, pre-Gulf II.  (Well, special case - secular, fought bloody war with
neighbor.)  Norway.

And, again, the terrorists we should fear are older, educated, and
not of particularly religious backgrounds.


> Poor despotic countries have better things to do than to export
> terrorism across the world.

Afghanistan, Syria, Egypt to some extent.