Another piece of liberal CW quashed

Harvard Gazette: Freedom squelches terrorist violence:

"'In the past, we heard people refer to the strong link between terrorism and poverty, but in fact when you look at the data, it's not there. This is true not only for events of international terrorism, as previous studies have shown, but perhaps more surprisingly also for the overall level of terrorism, both of domestic and of foreign origin,' Abadie said.
Instead, Abadie detected a peculiar relationship between the levels of political freedom a nation affords and the severity of terrorism. Though terrorism declined among nations with high levels of political freedom, it was the intermediate nations that seemed most vulnerable."

This topic came up in pre-election discussion at the office. It was suggested that we need to understand the 'root cause' of terrorism before we can condemn or stop it. It was also implied that poverty and living conditions - as the CW once stated - were the root cause. Well, maybe not. Now what? Had we only discussed the 'root cause' and not DONE anything, we'd find ourselves today with evidence that contradicts the CW and potentially more terrorists and possibly have had more terrorists attacks outside Iraq and the Middle East. It's difficult to prove a negative. As shown here, it's also difficult to prove CW.