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Why Are Terrorists Often Engineers?
An anonymous reader writes "As a follow up to their September 2008 article, IEEE Spectrum revisits the question of why a disproportionate number of terrorists have engineering degrees. According to their own summary of the interview with political scientist Steffen Hertog, 'nearly half of [individuals involved in political violence] with degrees have been engineers,' a rather ambiguous statement especially for a publication targeted at engineers. The interview makes some interesting points (lack of job opportunities for engineers despite a relatively high social status) and some suspect ones (e.g. framing Islamic culture into the western left vs. right politics). Above all, IEEE Spectrum tries really hard to associate engineers with terrorism for some reason."
Boo hoo. Cry me a river.
This is only equivalent in the algebra of a capitalist pig. Any normal, healthy person won't see things the same way.
I'm guessing the letter wasn't published because any man who is scared of a president who pulled us out of a fabricated war...
Wait, we pulled out of a war? Which one? Iran?
...when the one who openly and blatantly lied to the public in order to start one does not instill fear, lacks the basic facility of common sense.
So Obama opposed it, then? Or he just failed to do the same kind of basic research that basement nerds can somehow accomplish?
On a related note, Chuck Norris never scared me until now ;-)
You two Einsteins DO realize that the first letter was written by Lou Pritchett, and NOT Chuck Norris, yes?
Anyway, please excuse my protest, but it is WAY TOO SOON to start rewrite of history just yet.