Over the last few years foreclosure and its distressing effects on the human psyche have been blamed for some unfortunate incidents and behaviors by homeowners. From the more recent bulldozing escapade by disgruntled owner Terry Hoskins to more bleak reports of suicide, foreclosures seem to have been pegged at the root of the problem.

The latest foreclosure blame-game report may be a stretch though. A recent opinion column in the Wall Street Journal implicates foreclosure as one of the causes for the recent attempted terror plot in New York City’s Time Square.

Ezra Klein’s article titled, “The economic crisis meets terrorism” immediately sounded off an alarm. Klein quotes an article on MSNBC, which reported that terror suspect Faisal Shahzad defaulted on the mortgage on his Connecticut home. Later in the column, Klein speculates that foreclosure may have been an underlying factor in his motives to blow up the black SUV in Times Square.

Here is a snippet of his column:

“The hearts of men are opaque, and motives are complex. But it’s a reminder that foreclosures generate an enormous amount of misery and anxiety and depression that can tip people into all sorts of dangerous behaviors that don’t make headlines but do ruin lives. And for all that we’ve done to save the financial sector, we’ve not done nearly enough to help struggling homeowners.”

Unfortunately Americans and other Western societies are all too familiar with terrorism, which came to a culmination during the World Trade Center attacks. Of all the reasons that may influence someone to perform an act of terrorism, I can say quite confidently that foreclosure is not one of them.

Perhaps one of the more obvious reasons Shahzah fell into foreclosure was his ultimate goal to leave the U.S., as he was found aboard a plain headed to Dubai, on one of the most expensive airlines in the world.

As a caveat though, if foreclosure really can cause the utmost kind of country hatred, I would be taking a page out of John O’Brien’s book, and Leaving Las Vegas.