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To: Lane3 who wrote (67565)	9/6/2004 8:10:38 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793955

So, if you're rich and well supported you can't be desperate? People get desperate when they are thwarted in some objective that is critical to them. Money is not the only objective. If you're rich and well supported you can get frustrated. Frustrated isn't desperate. Please stop with the word games! The Palestinians are a case in point where they had tons of other choices all the way down the line, and chose terrorism with depressing consistency. It's not false. It's simply not inevitable or universal No, karen. When you look at the world's people, you find that terrorism has an extremely low correlation with true desperation, and an extremely high correlation with an ideology that is supportive of terrorism. Islamism is the chief such ideology in the world today. Once you see this, it is simply false to keep asserting that desperation causes terrorism, just not universally. Desperation has nothing to do with the case. If you don't like my examples, come up with one of your own. You just need to create a scenario where someone has to choose between an otherwise immoral act and something priceless to him Since it is not desperation that drives terrorism this scenario is irrelevant.