The Obama administration has a strange theory. Terrorism is a response of uneducated human beings who have been disenfranchised politically and economically. If we can solve the root grievances of the poor and oppressed around the world, there will be no more terrorists, and Americans will be safe. This view is of course absurd. If poverty, lack of education, and political disenfranchisement were the causes of terrorism, then much of India and most of China would be populated by terrorists. But they are not. And this is because terrorism is the violent expression of ideology, not objective conditionswhat has famously been called propaganda of the deed. The terrorists ideology may be secular and politicalcommunist or fascist, for exampleor it may be religiousChristian, Islamic, or even Hindu.

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