That's What's Driving Terrorism
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Transcript: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14907031/
Videos: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032608/
This weekend Tim Russert was asking the questions on MSNBC's MEET THE PRESS, and he was hosting former President Clinton, Hamid Karzai, and John Danforth. Clinton made one of the most remarkably lucid observations we've heard in recent history -
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MR. RUSSERT: As we sit here in September of 2006, what do you think is the biggest problem confronting our world? The biggest?
MR. CLINTON: In the short term it is the illusion that our differences matter more than our common humanity. That’s what’s driving the terrorism. ....
...In the longer term, climate change is the biggest threat, because if it’s allowed to come to fruition-and particularly if we’re, at the same time, running out of affordable, recoverable oil-you’re going to have a-almost over night-a dramatic change in the way we live, and it will cause millions of food refugees, it’ll cause probably food and water wars, and it could change the underlying conditions on which our civilization rests. So I’d say terror, based on human difference today, climate change over the long run.
END OF QUOTE
Denny
Transcript: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14907031/
Videos: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032608/
This weekend Tim Russert was asking the questions on MSNBC's MEET THE PRESS, and he was hosting former President Clinton, Hamid Karzai, and John Danforth. Clinton made one of the most remarkably lucid observations we've heard in recent history -
BEGIN QUOTE:
MR. RUSSERT: As we sit here in September of 2006, what do you think is the biggest problem confronting our world? The biggest?
MR. CLINTON: In the short term it is the illusion that our differences matter more than our common humanity. That’s what’s driving the terrorism. ....
...In the longer term, climate change is the biggest threat, because if it’s allowed to come to fruition-and particularly if we’re, at the same time, running out of affordable, recoverable oil-you’re going to have a-almost over night-a dramatic change in the way we live, and it will cause millions of food refugees, it’ll cause probably food and water wars, and it could change the underlying conditions on which our civilization rests. So I’d say terror, based on human difference today, climate change over the long run.
END OF QUOTE
Denny
Labels: climate change, Clinton, Danforth religion, global warming, Karzai, Russert, terrorism
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