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Wealthy nations must spread the benefits - Clinton (Barf!)
Ananova ^
| Friday 14th December 2001
| Ananova
Posted on 12/14/2001 2:14:04 PM PST by grimalkin
Former US president Bill Clinton says fighting terrorism is the responsibility of the wealthy and prosperous nations.
Mr Clinton comments came during the BBC's 26th Richard Dimbleby Lecture on "The struggle for the soul of the 21st century".
The lecture, to more than 500 people at The Institute of Education in central London, will be transmitted on BBC1 on Sunday.
He stressed: "I am absolutely confident that we have the knowledge and the means to make the 21st century the most peaceful, prosperous and interesting time in our history."
But this, he said, was providing "we have the wisdom and the will" to achieve it.
The former president spoke of how poverty provided the breeding ground for terrorism.
"We as the wealthy countries have to spread the benefits over the world."
Mr Clinton said: "What makes the terrorist at the moment particularly frightening is the combination of universal vulnerability and powerful weapons of destruction.
"The responsibility now falls primarily upon the wealthy nations to spread the benefits and to spread the burdens."
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The former president spoke of how poverty provided the breeding ground for terrorism. Oh, and I suppose all of those WTC hijackers were living in poverty. Go to he**, Klinton.
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posted on
12/14/2001 2:14:04 PM PST
by
grimalkin
To: grimalkin
"Follow the money"
To: grimalkin
So Bill does this mean you'll donate the proceeds from your memoirs for the cause? Didn't think so.
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posted on
12/14/2001 2:16:43 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
Yeah... Guess what country the 19 hijackers came from and tell me if those souls were driven by poverty to do it... When all is said and done every time Bill Clinton opens his mouth he says something stupid. I just keep waiting for him to sink lower. What a representative of this country he is overseas!
To: grimalkin
We can start with his pension.
To: dfwgator
Maybe he won't deduct his used underwear on his taxes so the "poor" can benefit.
To: grimalkin
He has the nerve to call wealthy nations greedy while he's smuggling national treasures out of the White House on his way out the door. What a hypocrite!
To: grimalkin
Poor nations must work instead of whine - Wideawake
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posted on
12/14/2001 2:24:08 PM PST
by
wideawake
To: grimalkin
My response - "At whose expense, cigar-boy?"
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posted on
12/14/2001 2:24:52 PM PST
by
Noumenon
To: grimalkin
Poverty does not breed terrorism. Wealth does, with added nihilism, cultural acceptance, identity, and/or alienation. Show me where terrorism is actually corrolated with poverty.
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posted on
12/14/2001 2:26:42 PM PST
by
Shermy
To: grimalkin
Clinton continues to forget that he NO LONGER has access to a endless bank account, as he did when he was called "POTUS"
His logic can only be equalled to that of over hearing a conversation between "A 8 ball and a cue ball" as to what each thought of the Pool Table surface.
To: grimalkin
When wealthy nations attempt to spread the benefits, it gets called imperialism. Usually it's by the same gang of idiots who complain about wealthy nations not spreading the benefits in the first place.
To: grimalkin
"fighting terrorism is the responsibility of the wealthy and prosperous nations." Why don't we turn that over to Sudan or Somalia. "We as the wealthy countries have to spread the benefits over the world." I suggest we spread our benefits over the world at a proportion in line with what the Clinton's spread their wealth to the needy. Is this guy a deep thinker, or what?
To: Shermy
Poverty does not breed terrorism. Wealth does I think I agree, but I'm not sure ... could you elaborate just a bit ?
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posted on
12/14/2001 2:43:20 PM PST
by
THEUPMAN
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To: THEUPMAN
A religion that encourages hate is at fault here and everyone knows it. ftm
To: grimalkin
Why does he keep saying this everywhere he goes.......who is he campaing for?
To: THEUPMAN
Terrorism, as a technique, is not correlative with poverty. If it were, mass terrorism would be organized throughout the world where there is poverty. It is not a typical weapon of the poor.
Many are "shocked" that the Saudis came from middle class and wealthy backgrounds. Shouldn't be. Almost all terrorists do. Even the Palestinian ones tend to be not the poorest people. Why is this? Many issues, but terrorist acts particularly arise with religion. Also nihilism, e.g., anarchists. Coming from middle class or wealthy backgrounds seems to be a constant variable. Look at 60's 70's radical groups in US and Europe. Say, Olson and the SLA compared to the Black Panthers--the Panthers weren't oriented towards terrorism or mass killing episodes despite arguably actually being "oppressed" and "poor." I'm still working this through, but consider why suicide rates are higher in richer countries than poor. With the idle hands of leisure comes the risk of nihilism, identity concerns, etc. Poor people aren't associated with feelings of "alienation" that's a rich man's disease, whatever their excuse.
I'll work on this some more...
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posted on
12/14/2001 2:55:21 PM PST
by
Shermy
To: grimalkin
Why doesn't he start with spreading some of the millions his wife made on that book deal, or the thousands and thousands he made on the lecture circuit, or the money he squirreled away from fraudulent land deals, etc., etc.,.
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posted on
12/14/2001 2:58:05 PM PST
by
stanz
To: grimalkin
Since the conventional reading of Clinton's vague bromides would be that "we - the West" should share our "wealth", i.e. allow confiscatory "global" income taxes, collected and "redistributed" by the U.N., posters here have reacted in the only reasonable manner one could expect to an such a "proposal" made my WJC, with contempt and disgust. But I would argue, since this has all been tried before, and has failed so miserably, that 3rd world advocates are forced to plead for the "forgiving" of 3rd World debt, that the only REAL solution to 3rd world poverty and supposedly the simmering resentments that foster terrorism, be implemented. That is, the worldwide dismantling of all socialist state run economies, and the opening up of true free markets on every continent. To propose more of the failed redistributive, socialistic mandates of the past is less than stupid, it would be criminal and a pointless waste of another world generation's time and energy. So, we spread the benefits, by actually doing something that will matter. De-socialize the World! Would Clinton accept credit for such a suggestion? I don't care if he does, I am just tired of the same old, tired, failed, false and doomed drivel we always hear from the Democrat party and their leftist cadres.
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