subnational groups or clandestine agents, usually intended to influence an audience." “Alan B. Krueger and Jitka Maleckova” Does Poverty Cause Terrorism?, June 23 2002.
Though bothersome in nature, could this theory be true? I certainly agree to an extent. Because of the Bush Administration interfering with government in Iraq, secs divided and the American public did not see them as a self-sufficient population. The people living in the Middle East are impoverished and deprecated, they have endured being shoved into this poverty by our own country, and kept there. There is no doubt in this area of the world that there is a systematic derogatory stance against helping those people in any way other than sending in US forces to continue their militant oppression of impoverished people. There is a multitude of facts that lead to this correlation not being as definite as it may seem to be.
There are a vast majority of accounts to show that economic status does not always directly lead to engagement or non engagement in terrorism. “It is possible, for example, that well-educated individuals will disproportionately participate in terrorist groups if they think that they will assume leadership positions if they succeed, or if they identify more strongly with the goals of the terrorist organization than less-educated individuals.” “Alan B. Krueger and Jitka Maleckova” Does Poverty Cause Terrorism?, June 23 2002. A relevant case pertaining to this subject is the San Bernardino shooting, the people who carried out this crime were middle class, and further brings to question how related poverty is to substantial acts of violence. There is no distinct correlation between poverty and terrorism, which has come to be shown multiple times through case studies of different areas of the
US. Still, this is not the United States; I do believe that terrorism and suicide bombings directly correlate to “a response to political conditions and long-standing feelings of indignity and frustration (perceived or real) that have little to do with economics.” “Alan B. Krueger and Jitka Maleckova” Does Poverty Cause Terrorism?, June 23 2002. For this land to be restored, we must stop looking down upon these people as inept human beings, and realize what we have done to demolish their cultures and traditions. America needs to subside it’s oppressive dictatorship over the Middle East, and seek to resolve not with guns, I believe with diplomacy and reason.