‘We Cannot Beat Terrorism Without First Beating Poverty’

SYDNEY, August 13, 2004 (smh.com.au): The West, rich and getting richer, ignores the growing desperation of the poor at its peril, writes Benazir Bhutto in The Sydney Morning Herald –  While the world focuses on the war against terrorism, the war against poverty slides on to the backburner. Since the attacks on the World Trade Centre and Washington in 2001, three developments have become decisive on a global scale.  The first is the fight to root out militants, the second is the political rise of those on the religious margins and the third is the growing gap between the rich and the poor.  READ FURTHER