Sgt.Zubie wrote:
2. Why were we attacked?
Envy of our position, our success, and our freedoms.
I couldn't disgree more.
They are angry about 60 years of US foreign policy.
They are angry that US culture is steamrollering their own. I don't mean democracy and freedom. I mean christian values being forced upon muslims. I mean a starbucks and a mcdonalds on every streetcorner where a local trader used to make local traditional food and coffee. That their traditional cultural values are being forcefully replaced with the american worship of money and use of capitalism to justify everything, whille the US has spent 60 years working hard to ensure that no-one else has the freedoms and government that they want - instead the US has intervened time and again to ensure that
foriegn governments are of a type most desirable to the US, not necssarily the local peoples.
Wouldn't
you be angry? Wouldn't
you want to strike at such an oppressor and try to get them to leave your countries affairs alone?
"Bullshit!" I hear you say?
Chile - the US installed Pinochet after toppling the democratically elected socialist government.
Venezuela.
Argentinas US-backed Military Junta installed after...etc.
Grenada - invaded because the locals democratically elected a socialist government.
Korea.
Vietnam.
Iraq - yes Saddam was one of your boys, installed so the shi-ite majority wouldn't get seats in a democratically elected government.
Spain.
Panama - not the invasion, but the guy you had to oust; Noreiga(sp?) was yours too.
And thats just off the top of my head.
In 1997 a former head of the CIA went on record to say that his primary post-WWII mission was to facilitiate the "dismantling" of the British and French commonwealths to strengthed US power. By admission that is *hundreds* of governments that the US had a hand in changing -
for their own designs not the benefit of the locals.
You even had a hand in toppling Edward Heath's socialist government in Britain.
Supposedly one of your closest allies.
They are not
jealous.
They. Are.
ANGRY.
And they are convinced that they are fighting for their
freedom from US oppression.
http://www.archives.gov/national-archiv … rters.htmlRead those three documents. Think about how your government has acted during the last 60 years.
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