From: "ken hanly" <khanly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
PM says U.S. attitude helped fuel Sept. 11
By SHAWN McCARTHY
>From Thursday's Globe and Mail ...
In a CBC interview taped in July and aired last night, Mr. Chrétien
suggested the root causes of last year's Sept. 11 attacks were global
poverty and an over-bearing American foreign policy.
"It's always the problem when you read history - everybody doesn't know
when
to stop. There's a moment when you have to stop, there's a moment when you
are very powerful," he said.
Immediately following Sept. 11, Canadian politicians rejected the "root
causes" argument, saying the attacks were the work of irrational fanatics
that had nothing to do with legitimate grievances.
But Mr. Chrétien told CBC, religious fanatics are using the anger and
resentment of the world's poor to fuel their terrorism.
"I do think that the Western world is getting too rich in relations to the
poor world," he said.
"And necessarily, we're looked upon as being arrogant, self-satisfied,
greedy and with no limits. And the 11th of September is an occasion for me
to realize it even more."