Terrorism - The Hidden Factor

Terrorism is the product of despair. It appeals to the fanatical and the dispossessed.
At first glance it may appear that the two groups I have mentioned have much in common, but they do not. Fanatical elements feed on the dispossessed.
It is possible, even probable that there will always be a small proportion of human race who are born fanatical, born insane or born paranoid. There are those will always find an excuse for whatever is wrong in their lives. Who will always find someone to blame. And there are those who just don't have any feelings of humanity.
Then come the excuses why it is justifiable to murder and maim in the name of whatever cause they decide is the excuse. Often they use God, in a fundamentalist way, to justify their murderous attacks. God is the excuse but not the reason. The reason is that they need some form of authority to order these acts, and since God is usually silent so who is to argue?
Who is going to carry out these acts of terrorism? It is not the fundamentalists. Somehow I cannot imagine Osama bin Laden as a suicide bomber, or any of the hierarchy of Al-Qaeda wearing dynamite vests as they ride the bus to the markets to blow up innocent people. Being a Fundamentalist is OK but there are limits.
To carry out terrorist attacks the fundamentalists need the dispossessed. If there is nothing, no hope, only despair, it is easy to give false hope and reasons to believe. The less people have the less that have to lose till those who have nothing have nothing to loss. These are the people fundamentalists feed on.
We need intelligence, we need surveillance and military action to contain terrorism, but we cannot end terrorism until we find ways of raising the existence of the dispossessed to a level where there is hope. We cannot end terrorism by act of torture and oppression. We just become as bad as the terrorist.
The only way to end terrorism is to eliminate the base of fundamentalism, and reduce the fanatical to social oddities without any power. The fanatical only become powerful when they are listened to.
We need to end poverty and despair in the human race. Not just because it is a nice thing to do but because it is the way to deprive terrorism of its base and reduce fundamentalists to raving on street corners with no one listening. Aid, reconstruction and support for the dispossessed is not philanthropy, it is the key to our survival.