You might think that poverty breeds terrorism. It's a fairly intuitive view, and it has been trumpeted by some major figures. Here's Archbishop Desmond Tutu, for instance: “You can never win a war against terror as long as there are conditions in the world that make people desperate — poverty, disease, ignorance.” And here's Colin Powell: “We can’t just stop with a single terrorist or a single terrorist organization; we have to go and root out the whole system. We have to go after poverty.” God knows, there are far, far worse outlets for the energy that has hummed and ... Read More