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My latest Letter to the editor (NY Times):

To the Editor:

(Re: “Poverty Doesn’t Create Terrorism, “ Business Section, May 29)

Mr. Krueger’s assessment that terrorists are more likely to be born out of societies that don’t protect “freedom of expression and other civil liberties” offers a poor excuse to replace poverty as the leading cause of terrorism.

While his research may be complete, he fails to consider two points. Often terrorist acts are spawned by extremism, and no matter how “open” a society might be, some extremist views should be repressed. Timothy McVeigh lived in one of the most open societies ever, and still resorted to terrorism. White supremacists across the US do the same. As for Al Qaeda and Palestinian terrorists, the irony is that both come from the most restricted societies in every respect, yet their message of hate is far from repressed, it is celebrated.

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