Did Jews in Nazi Germany go about blowing up innocent German Civilians?
Did East Timorese drive carbombs into government buildings in Jakarta?
Did the ANC embark on widespread systematic attacks on innocent whites?
Do Tibetans slice the heads off Chinese hostages and broadcast them around the world?
Most opressed people will not react violently to the civilian populations of their opressors because they are being opressed, it is conducted by groups who have learnt the political impact of such actions will aid their cause. This works especially well against liberal democracies because unlike authoratarian regimes they do not just go out and exterminate any troublesome groups in the wake of an attack.
Fundamentalist terrorists have goals and ideological aims that motivate them, here are some quotes from various Islamist Propaganda pieces that can attest to these goals and why poverty and social ills are not the "root cause" of their violence.
"Jihad and the rifle alone. NO negotiations, NO conferences and NO dialogue."
--Sheikh Abdullah Azzam, Join The Caravan
"Allah is the only one that must be worshipped on Earth, and the only way to guarantee this is to control all the land masses, air and sea and give Islam the proper channel to be heard by the people."
--Sheikh Abu Hamza Al-Masri, Allah's
Governance on Earth
"Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the Israeli Likud party said, trying to disparage his enemies: 'The celebrated goal of Islamic Fundamentalism is to secure the worldwide victory of Islam by defeating the non-Muslim and infidels through Jihaad...'. Thank you very much, Mr. Netanyahu, for a very accurate description. "
--Muhammad 'Abdus Salam Faraj, Jihad: The Absent Obligation
These are not the words of people who desire to see peace and harmony for their people, they are motivated out of an ideological hatred of all that stand in the way of their messed up beliefs and will exterminate them as such, it is abundantly clear from their own messages and what we have seen in history that terrorism against civilians is more of a politcal weapon than act of despiration and by reversing the responsibilty from the terrorists themselves to these "root causes" that the west supposedly created we are simply encouraging furthur violence.
The entire point I am making is that fixing world poverty and alleviating third world debt are very noble and good things to do and they will save hundreds of millions even billions of people and they must be done for the sake of humanity but in this War on Terror we must deal with an enemy that is bent on exterminating all of us and if they gain WMD then they will not hesitate to use them on the most attractive targets. They will not be appeased or negotiated with, we cannot stall them by giving into their demands because they will just make more demands and come back stronger and infict more damage. They must be fought and we can do it if we reciognize who the enemy is (millitant Islam from the lowliest accomplice like Amrozi up to the highest echelons of Saudi politics and Islamic "spiritual" leaders that incite violence the world over, especially against Jews and "white meat") and have an agressive campaign to eliminate their training camps, capture their leaders and operatives and cutoff the financial, operational and spiritual support that they recieve from "benevolent Muslim charities" the world over. If we combine this with a global plan to encourage disamament of nuclear weapons and reduction of stockpiles and transform the Arab actors into a real player in the world with democracy and liberty then the problem of massive scale terrorism that threatens the existence of free and open civilizations will not be as much of an issue as it is today.