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Growth solves terrorism

The governments of those countries must be held reslponsible for policies that undermine or oppose freedom, stifle economic qrowth, and help create the circumstances under which terrorism flourishes. America's battle in Afghanistan against the Taliban regime and al-Qaeda terrorist network is merely the first skirmish in a long war. If the war on terrorism is to be won, and if this victory is to be sustainable, America must focus on encouraging the qovernments of developing countries to embrace economic liberty in order to counter the poverty and desperation upon which terrorist qroups depend.

Economic decline leads to increased risk of nuclear terrorism

Warrick, 8 (Joby, staff writer, Washington Post, 11/15/08)

Intelligence officials are warning that the deepening global financial crisis could weaken fragile governments in the world's most dangerous areas and undermine the ability of the United States and its allies to respond to a new wave of security threats. U.S. government officials and private analysts say the economic turmoil has heightened the short-term risk of a terrorist attack, as radical groups probe for weakening border protections and new gaps in defenses. A protracted financial crisis could threaten the survival of friendly regimes from Pakistan to the Middle East while forcing Western nations to cut spending on defense, intelligence and foreign aid, the sources said. The crisis could also accelerate the shift to a more Asia-centric globe, as rising powers such as China gain more leverage over international financial institutions and greater influence in world capitals. Some of the more troubling and immediate scenarios analysts are weighing involve nuclear-armed Pakistan, which already was being battered by inflation and unemployment before the global financial tsunami hit. Since September, Pakistan has seen its national currency devalued and its hard-currency reserves nearly wiped out. Analysts also worry about the impact of plummeting crude prices on oil-dependent nations such as Yemen, which has a large population of unemployed youths and a history of support for militant Islamic groups. The underlying problems and trends -- especially regional instability and the waning influence of the West -- were already well established, but they are now "being accelerated by the current global financial crisis," the nation's top intelligence official, Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell, said in a recent speech. McConnell is among several top U.S. intelligence officials warning that deep cuts in military and intelligence budgets could undermine the country's ability to anticipate and defend against new threats.

Economic decline leads to terrorism

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John Thomas, Professor of Economics, January 18 2008, Becker-Posner Blog, Accessed April 8 2008, http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2008/01/terrorism_and_e.html

However lack of economic growth also helps terrorism. To manage in the modern world, every country requires an intellectual class, and without sufficient economic growth this intellectual class is often idle or their partially educated children are idle and likely somewhat unemployed, and thus ripe for radicalism. Also, lack of economic growth tends to support the idea that the nation has fallen behind as a great power. People always like to feel like their part of a great power and economic growth makes people feel like if they are not part of a great power they are becoming part of one. Much of the discontent in the Muslim world is from the idea that the Muslim world has fallen behind the West and thus it must become a great power by any means necessarily.

A2: Growth Causes Terror – Resentment

Capitalism doesn’t fuel terrorism- bad foreign policy is the root cause.

Lindsey, 01- Is the senior editor of Cato Unbound. Lindsey holds an A.B. from Princeton University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. (Brink Lindsey, Policy Report, “Terrorism’s Fellow Travelers”, November/ December 2001, http://74.125.95.132/custom?q=cache:u2CLXl5yCr4J:www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/v23n6/terrorism.pdf+capitalism+and+terrorism&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=google-coop-np)
Al Qaeda's ideology now has a life of its own. The U.S. preoccupation with Iraq for more than two years after September 11 (beginning with President Bush naming Iraq as a member of the “axis of evil” in his January 2002 State of the Union address) has given time and space for the cancer to spread, as well as a rallying cry to recruit more Muslims to Al Qaeda's radical cause. According to Omar Bakri Mohammed, the London-based leader of the radical Islamic group al-Muhajiroun: “Al Qaeda is no longer a group. It’s become a phenomenon of the Muslim world resisting the global crusade of the U.S. against Islam.” We know that Al Qaeda has become a franchise of sorts, bring- ing other radical Islamic groups, such as Jemaah Islamiyah in Indonesia, into its fold. But it also now appears that a “reverse fran- chise” effect may be taking place. That is, other groups may conduct terrorist attacks citing sympathy with Al Qaeda but without any direct connection to or contact with Al Qaeda. The November 2003 car bombings in Turkey (the Abu Hafs al Masri Brigades and Great Eastern Islamic Raider's Front both claimed responsibility) and the March 2004 train bombings in Spain (the Abu Hafs al Masri Brigades claimed responsibility but the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group has been the primary target of the Spanish investigation) are signs of this phenomenon. Changing U.S. Foreign Policy Understanding the Al Qaeda threat also means challenging the conventional wis- dom articulated by President Bush in the aftermath of September 11: “Why do they hate us? They hate what we see right here in this chamber—a democratically elected government. They hate our freedoms—our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and dis- agree with each other.” That’s a misleading analysis. Through- out the world, even the Muslim world, people admire and appreciate American accomplishments, culture, and values (including democracy and capitalism). But many of those people hate U.S. policies. Polls con- ducted throughout the world show that anti-Americanism is fueled more by what we do than who we are. As a 1998 study for the Department of Defense reported, much of the anti-Amer- ican resentment around the world, par- ticularly the Islamic world, is the result of interventionist U.S. foreign policy. Such resentment is the first step to hatred, which can lead to violence, including terrorism. Therefore, the United States needs to stop meddling in the internal affairs of other countries and regions, except when they directly threaten U.S. national security inter- ests, that is, when the territorial integrity, national sovereignty, or liberty of the Unit- ed States is at risk.

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