Excellent well written article. Its Time you took the opportunity to open Mr.Kerrys eyes on the worlds poverty problem. Unforunatly Mr. kerry lives in a glass bubble.

In a phenomena Freud could Parly understand Some of the worst most Sadistic Nazis were Highly Educated .Nazi Doctors and Human Experiments were Unspeakable and most got free instead of Receiving the Proper Justice .But Dire Poverty produces the Support the Cunning Ruthless need it Causes people to be Desperate .That is True.

Read Debbie Schlussel's column dated 7/3/ 2007 and you'll see that Muslim terrorism is oftentimes linked to Muslim physicians.It sort of makes you wonder if they learned a lesson or two from Dr. Joseph Mengele.

The reasons people become terrorists are NOT universal. For example, the Somali al Shaabab recruits from the uneducated impoverished/destitute as does the Pakistani Taliban. Your understanding of this topic is provincial. Time to read a little more on the member compositions/recruiting practices of groups outside of the pre-9/11 AQ sphere.

Never mind Afghanistan and Nigeria, Saudi Arabia is funding radical Islam all over Europe. As one expert on Islam has said: one mosque is worse than nuclear bombs.

10% of Palestinians in the West Bank\Gaza are Christians. Can you guess the percentage of Christians that were involved in attacks against Israel? the answer WON'T surprise you.

as the author correctly points out, the saudis finance radical islamist mosques and madrassas worldwide. the saudis are not any better than shia iran in their export of terror. these two islamic states, saudi arabia and shia iran are responsible for the near totality of terror in the world today.

The Obama regime says that Boko Haram is not Islamic and is not attacking Christians for being Christian. The Obama regime knows this is false and that Boko Haram is pure wahhabi and the attacks on Christians is jihad. The Obama regime makes the link for poverty because they don't want to admit the truth.

There is no connection between poverty and terrorism and poor people make poor terrorists. Terrorism is ideology-driven warfare which achieves no physical objective. It is more a radical method of spreading one's message and grabbing attention. As long as there are radicals there will be terror. Poverty is something else altogether but also worth combatting.

It seems Obama gang cannot differentiate between evil and hunger. A hungry man is an angry but not evil. If a Kerry is sound minded and not evil himself let me proof him idiotic or..... Many rich Americans who are not hungry yet evil. What a stupid comment! Is he developing dementia?

"Enlightened" is a word that doesn't belong in the same sentence as Kerry. On every single major issue, Kerry spouts the party line like the mindless Obama regime human robot he is.

Millions of people throughout the world live in poverty and the fact that they do does not set them on the road of violence. The root cause of the fact that "most terrorists are Muslims" is the religion of Islam. It is hailed as a religion of peace but the facts on the ground refute this. It is a religion that promotes and preaches violence in direct contradiction to the other two monotheistic religions. Very sad, but simply a fact which cannot be denied, the proof is there, self evident, on a daily basis for the past 50/60 years. Christians and Jews do not go about blowing up buses and buildings and planes. Just plain simple facts. The Arabs were blessed with oil but instead of using the revenues to solve their problems they use it to promote terror and they generate contempt for themselves, and then they wonder why.

back in Asia, we can find lots of African christain students, which are very peaceful people... they used to tell stories of their life in poverty back in Kenya or Ethopia or Tanzania... yet their christians villagers never take any weapons to fight against their country leaders... instead the christians were persecuted by the muslims there.

...and withdrawal of the British from Palestine. Starting a series of Arab–Israeli wars, the Nakba, ethnic cleansing, illegal settlements, anti-Zionist global terror, 9/11, Afghan war, Iraq war, Arab Spring, Syrian war. And now Israel demands an Iran war. Jewish invasion of Palestine split Christians, Muslims, and split Palestine. And now Israel "Clean Break" policy has split Sunni, and Shia, like a blood diamond.

We have heard this in Sweden for many Decades, all unrightous violance depends on povverty. And when the Poverty is gone through State Leftist Policy, all violance remains. Arn.Sweden.

How would you know chica-bum-chick.

Very well and correct documented. Unfortunately, "islam"- Saudi-Arabia, "islam"- Iran, "islam"-Pakistan and the rest of the present, entire "islam"-world were/are a threat/danger to each people, to the free and democratic world and to the world-population/humankind, without or with nuclear/atomic weaponry, since the 7th. century. For example, also, Israel, forever, ever and always!