British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Saturday it is crucial to address terrorism's underlying causes, which he identified as deprivation, lack of democracy and ongoing conflict in the Middle East. Thursday's bomb attacks on London demonstrate the pressing need for world leaders to tackle problems like poverty, he told British Broadcasting Corp. radio. He said leaders had taken on some of those issues at the G-8 summit of the world's wealthy nations in Scotland this week.| I'd call the deprivation and the ongoing conflict in the Muddle East the result of the lack of "democracy" — which, as I keep repeating, is in reality shorthand for freedom to tell your local holy man to go to hell, rather than the mere freedom to vote the way your local Gauleiter tells you to... |