Obama points to “Poverty” in Radio Address

President Obama demonstrated his biting deductive reasoning this morning as he released a radio address where he announces his decision that Al-Qaeda in Yemen was in fact behind the Christmas morning attempted bombing of an airliner after landing at Detroit Airport.?

What I found considerably perplexing was when the President made this comment:

?We know that [Abdulmutallab] travelled to Yemen, a country grappling with crushing poverty and deadly insurgencies…?

A skilled politician our President is, he can indirectly link something to another when all of the evidence points to the opposite conclusion.? This was an attempt to plant a seed in the minds of Americans that the “crushing poverty” contributes heavily?to the existence of terrorism, particularly in this case.? However, it turns out that the opposite holds true, as Abdulmutallab was a well-off and well-educated.? The same with the mastermind of the London bomings in 2005, not to mention many of the 9/11 hijackers as well…

-rj