The apologists must be squirming

A study from Alberto Abadie, a researcher at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, finds that terrorism and poverty are not linked. Rather, it correlates in a bell curve to the level of political freedom. In autocratic societies, terrorism is low because of centralized and brutal control of its citizens. In an open, politically free society, terrorism is also low. However, it found that societies that are in between suffer the most terrorism.

It can be safely concluded that terrorism exists to either surpress political freedom or support an autocracy. What's happening in Iraq, what's happening in Afghanistan are terrorists supressing those countries' transitions to democracy and liberty for their peoples. We must not let that happen. We, as Americans, must support democracy and liberty around the world. We must not run from Iraq and Afghanistan. We should support George Bush's vision of the transformative power of libery. Only then can we be safe.