The civilized world is paying the price of poverty. When you are hungry you
will do just about anything...

Two problems with that:

1) The September-11 terrorists were not poor, and all but one came from a
nonpoor country.

2) Iraq is a nonpoor country. That its mineral wealth went to building a
tyrant's luxury palaces and not to the people, was not the fault of the
"civilized world."

The War of 2001 is not about poverty, it is about a fanatical belief system.
In some places, that system *uses* poverty as a recruiting aid, but it would
exist even if none of them were poor.