Cotton Terrorism  Domestic agricultural subsidies distort markets and thus cause a multitude of harms. However, none seems worse than the overproduction of cotton in rich countries that adversely impacts farmers in the “cotton-four” West African countries. Nonetheless, they are part of a much larger and more complex array of distorting policies and practices that defy a cherry-picking approach to reform. It also doesn’t help to exaggerate their impact. Speaking on behalf of the cotton-four, Mali Prime Minister Abdoulaye Idrissa Maiga charged that rich country cotton subsidies are “promoting the growth of extremists.” Cotton is not the source of religious intolerance in Muslim West Africa. Cultural Shippi...