[randita]

"The reason that the World Trade Center got hit is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty out there who don't have any hope for a better life," he said.

Perhaps no one has told Turner that OBL belongs to one of the richest families in Saudi Arabia. And that the major funders of terrorism are RICH Islamists.

[Shermy]

"The reason that the World Trade Center got hit is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty out there who don't have any hope for a better life," he said.

It's a standard liberal globalist explanation. PM Chretien has floated it, so has at times Clinton and others. It's a talking point that posits guilt and a solution to the guilt, but really is a subterfuge to rationalize american and western taxpayers pay for debt relief and other tax money diversion scams.

[weegee]

5 of the world's 10 richest men are in the Middle East. Doesn't sound like America's problem that there is poverty in the Middle East. "Money" is available without our intervention.