One of the main topics of conversation since 2001 has been: what are the root causes of terrorism? Today, Obama has once again laid it at the feet of class warfare. Poverty, ignorance, helplessness and despair are to blame for terrorists doing what they do. The pervasive philosophy underlying this argument is Marxism. 3 of the 4 pieces to Obama's argument are materialistic in nature.
While material stuff may be incentive to some, I think the true believers are more ideological. The 2001 terrorists were not poor, helpless, despairing men. They were upper middle-class men who had an agenda justified by their ideology. Indeed, OBL is an extremely wealthy man and his organization receives millions from very wealthy kindred souls. The people that Obama described are used by the true believers as cannon fodder. Again, the justification lies in the ideology.
So, I think the Marxist argument for terrorism is facile at best. But that is Marxism's Achilles' Heal. True Believers fall outside the parameters of class struggle.
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