Thomas Friedman: U.S. Middle East Policy 'All About Oil,' Not Human Rights

Commented Aug 22, 2012 at 15:13:53 in World

“And we can not understand it when we get terrorized. Money will probably always trump human rights and therefore we will probably always have terrorists. Do you ever hear people talking about the cause, other than blaming religion and how backward thinking other people are? If you think that money is more important than human rights, you are the backward uncivilized one. Of course that works both ways. Many middle east leaders also think that money trumps human rights.”