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Non-idealogues may perhaps be satisfied with better economic circumstances. But even in America with the drive by shootings and drugs, it isn't always about poverty.
Look at the hip hop music industry. East coast rappers shoot west coast rappers because they were dissed. Just a day ago or so rapper Li'l Kim was convicted of perjury in a case involving just that. These guys are rich.
Similarly, Islamic terrorists will be regardless of economic conditions. Bin Laden is very wealthy (or at least was - I think he was cut off or had assets frozen or something). His twisted version of Islamm, though, says to kill the infidels, and the infidels are those who doesn't believe what he does. The infidels are those that support Israel.
In Iraq, the general populace wants the terrorists to leave. They don't have support of anywhere near even a fair sized minority. The citizens want them gone. The average Iraqi isn't killing US soldiers or blowing up bombs even though conditions are less than ideal. I think the jihadists already look foolish, silly, and barbaric, but that won't change who they are or what they do. They are zealots who don't care what anyone thinks of them.
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