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rdean
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Granted they are religious fanatics but it goes much deeper than that.
The basis for most all the problems we have with the Muslim world boils down two things, support for Israel and Oil. We are not hated because of who we are, but rather for what we do. Our ventures into the Middle East have been costly both in dollars and human lives. Had our intrusion into the Arab world been limited to the Israeli issue, our relations would have improved with time. Our actions to keep oil flowing to the west and out of the hands of Russia clearly made us the enemy to many Muslims.
First we instigated a government overflow in 1953 in Iran putting the Shaw in power. For 25 years we supported a dictatorship in Iran giving them 1.2 billion dollars to keep the oil flowing to the west until the people of Iran revolted and put the Ayatollah in power.
We then helped Saddam Hussein in the war against Iran. Then we turned on Saddam and attacked when he threatens the flow oil by invading Kuwait. Tens years later we attacked Iraq again because they had WMDs which turned out to be bogus. During the war we killed over 100,000 civilians and embarrass ourselves with the Abagrave prison scandal and the lack of evidence of WMDs.
In Afghanistan, we supported the Afghans against Russia to prevent Russian from controlling a proposed oil pipeline across Afghanistan. Then we walked out of Afghanistan leaving it to the Taliban. Today we are fighting against those that we previously supported.
In Guantanamo, we hold hundreds of accused terrorist without trial, which is contrary to our claims we make about American justice.
During this entire foreign policy debacle, we bought off the Saudi royal family with arms deals and defense agreements, which has alienates them and us in the Middle East.
If you want to know why Islamic terrorist attack us, you need only to look at 60 years of American foreign policy in the Middle East which has been a disaster. The solution is painful but very simple. GET THE HELL OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST BY BECOMING ENERGY INDEPENDENT.
Iran ? United States relations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Soviet war in Afghanistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Guantanamo Bay detention camp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bin Laden or any Sunni could care less that we helped Saddam against Shiite Iran.
The other stuff you said doesn't even make sense.
The reason Bin Laden attacked us was because he was a sick fuck. But his reasoning is easy to understand. Saddam invaded Kuwait. The other middle eastern countries turned to us instead of Bin Laden. That's what pissed him off. He didn't like "infidels" attacking Arabs in their "Holy Lands" and he was mad they didn't want his help, but preferred help from the US.
Bush 1 sent Saddam back to Iraq.
Bush 1 did the right thing. Bin Laden attacking us was on Bin Laden, NOT George Bush 1.
How do we know this? Because Bin Laden told us. It's as simple as that.
Bush 1 didn't invade Iraq because he knew the cost would bankrupt this country. By the time his son was president, America had forgotten all of the lessons learned over the previous 90 years.