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Omissions & Terrorism

Ted Honderich explains why he thinks that we in the West are partly to blame for the terrorist attacks on September 11.

The poorest tenths of the populations of the African countries of Malawi, Mozambique, Sierra Leone and Zambia want what we want. What they get is average lifetimes of about 30 years. They live an average of about 50 years less than the best-off tenths in wealthy countries. Bad lives. Mr Tony Blair, in some of his speeches, shows he is concerned.

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