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>the Arab/Islam world is largely poor except for certain
>people in certain oil countries. And yet they don't make much effort to start
>businesses or farms, or create seed money that will lead to economic
>prosperity.

Americans have been taught to believe fairytales such as "we built 
our country by our sole efforts", "if other countries didn't succeed 
the same way it's because they are lazy, stupid or they don't have 
God on their side", "we help the world" etc. Maybe these fairytales 
are necessary in a country born on genocide and slavery, where a good 
part of the slaves' grandchildren still live in subhuman conditions, 
and which sucks the planet dry in a criminal way. I don't know. But I 
wish you looked around and realized that the world isn't based on 
fair trade or equal chances.

For example, millions of people died in Congo since the independence 
because of American/European economical warfare. In the Sixties, the 
wealth of John Kennedy's family depended largely on copper mines, of 
which Katanga's copper mines were unbeatable competitors which had to 
be impoverished and weakened by all means and at all costs. The 
present war west of the Great Lakes region is because certain 
minerals essential for cell phones & next generation CPUs are to be 
found only there. When it comes to international terrorism Ben Laden 
is just a schoolboy, America and Europe have been exporting war and 
desolation for decades.

El-Quaida won't change this, of course... after all fundamentalist 
muslims have nothing against capitalist exploitation. But the anger 
on which they prosper, and which makes possible their crimes, is 
entirely justified, and should be addressed before Ben Laden appears 
as a sort of muslim Robin Hood for the whole of humanity except the 
G8, which is the worst case scenario we're heading to, unfortunately, 
since America reacts so stupidly with its calls for religious war.