Why extremism loves company    Why do people become violent
extremists? You might speculate that the answer is poverty. U.S.
President George W. Bush thought so: “We fight against poverty
because hope is an answer to terror.” Or you might think a lack
of education explains it. Laura Bush thought so: “A lasting
victory in the war against terror depends on educating the
world’s children.”   Suicide bombers are likely to have more
income and more education than most people in their home nation,
research shows. A few years after the attacks of 9/11, people in
Jordan, Morocco, Pakistan and Turkey with higher than average
incomes were no less likely to say that suicide attacks against
Westerners were justified. People with more education were
actually more likely to reach that conclusion.  Similarly, among
Palestinians, support for violence against Israeli targets is
pervasive — not lower among people with relatively high earnings
and education than it is among those who are illiterate and
unemployed.    The origin