Terrorist Triumphs are sown in the Disasters of Development
- by: DERMOT RYAN
- recipient: congress members
A PETITION THAT YOU ADOPT THIS way to Win the War on Terror by Democratic Development.
In view of the almost hysterical fear of terrorism EXPRESSED BY THE US ADMINISTRATION including terrorism from the poor non-white countries I ask would the benefits of giving a fair price for their agricultural produce be an important step towards the basic human security necessary for democracy through strengthening the lower and middle classes resistance to oligarchic rule and corruption.
President George W. Bush spoke of "an age of terror" in 2001 [1] And among almost innumerable pessimistic references, in 2007 said: "The war on terror we fight today is a generational struggle that will continue long after you and I have turned our duties over to others.[2] The United States policy defining National Security Strategy Report[3] identified a seedbed for terrorism with the words, "poverty, weak institutions, and corruption can make weak States vulnerable to terrorist networks." US aapprehension is sufficiently great that defensive measures taken include provision of the continent-wide Africa Command new US bases and permanent military forces. US intelligence reports now indicate that force, which has blown oxygen on the flames of belief and sacrifice, is failing.
Rather than making many unelected elites permanent by military support from the huge war on terror budget we should recognise that terrorism thrives in undemocratic conditions. The history of our own democracy demands we permit those who have most to gain from democracy and would support it, the billion plus peasants and farmers, an open market price for their output. the basic needs for literacy, shelter, clothing and food to be more available to the number would be enlarged. would support their needs. We could cease our manipulation of the world price of agricultural produce down to almost 50% below Adam Smith's natural price which we achieve through agricultural subsidies and import tariffs.
More tolerance of political competition and more possibility for elites who are voted out of office to continue living adequately would follow. The benefits would open the possibility that the 66% of total aid which is presently given to non democratic or corrupt regimes be ceased thereby giving a further boost for democracy. We might fund some compensation for the starvation deaths caused by the price manipulation in past years from this saving.
We would Our do gooders would no longer fear the aggregate question; why has no good been done
The loss of low cost physical resources and some political control would be offset by the lessening of the undemocratic conditions which lead to terrorism. Not by coincidence, the most undemocratic country in the world, albeit utterly friendly, almost an honorary Western state, Saudi Arabia, supplied most of the 9/11 raiders
[1] President George W. Bush. September 20, 2001%u201CSome speak of an age of terror.%u201D
[2] President Bush in his State of the Union Message 2007
[3]United States National Security Strategy Report 2002. a basic policy formulating document
We the undersigned
In view of the almost hysterical fear of terrorism EXPRESSED BY THE US ADMINISTRATION, EVEN terrorism from the poor non-white countries I ask would the benefits of giving a fair price for their agricultural produce be an important step towards the basic human security necessary for democracy through strengthening the lower and middle classes resistance to oligarchic rule and corruption.
President George W. Bush spoke of "an age of terror in 2001%u201D [1] And among almost innumerable pessimistic references, in 2007 said: "The war on terror we fight today is a generational struggle that will continue long after you and I have turned our duties over to others.%u201D[2] The United States policy defining National Security Strategy Report[3] identified a seedbed for terrorism with the words, "poverty, weak institutions, and corruption can make weak States vulnerable to terrorist networks." US aapprehension is sufficiently great that defensive measures taken include provision of continent-wide %u2018Africa Command%u2019 new US bases and permanent military forces. US intelligence reports now indicate that force, which has blown oxygen on the flames of belief and sacrifice, is failing.
Rather than making many unelected elites permanent by military support from the huge war on terror budget we should recognise that terrorism thrives in undemocratic conditions. The history of our own democracy demands we permit those who have most to gain from democracy and would support it, the billion plus peasants and farmers, an open market price for their output. the basic needs for literacy, shelter, clothing and food to be more available to the number would be enlarged. would support their needs. We could cease our manipulation of the world price of agricultural produce down to almost 50% below Adam Smith's natural price which we achieve through agricultural subsidies and import tariffs.
More tolerance of political competition and more possibility for elites who are voted out of office to continue living adequately would follow. The benefits would open the possibility that the 66% of total aid which is presently given to non democratic or corrupt regimes be ceased thereby giving a further boost for democracy. We might fund some compensation for the starvation deaths caused by the price manipulation in past years from this saving.
We would Our do gooders would no longer fear the aggregate question; %u2018why has no good been done%u2019
The loss of low cost physical resources and some political control would be offset by the lessening of the undemocratic conditions which lead to terrorism. Not by coincidence, the most undemocratic country in the world, albeit utterly friendly, almost an honorary Western state, Saudi Arabia, supplied most of the 9/11 raiders
THANK YOU FOR TAKING TIME TO CONSIDER THIS PLEA
[1] President George W. Bush. September 20, 2001%u201CSome speak of an age of terror.%u201D
[2] President Bush in his State of the Union Message 2007
[3]United States National Security Strategy Report 2002. a basic policy formulating document
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