CSM
Senior Member
absolutely! I never suggested or even implied that it was our foreign policy alone. I think the regimes of the gulf state monarchies are very culpable. It is a complex and lengthy calculus that created Islamic extremists, and for anyone to intimate that 9/11 was Clinton's fault for not pursuing them vigorously is nothing but partisan tripe.
Absolutely; it is also nothing but partisan tripe to say that Bush is soley responsible for terrorism or the anti-American attitude around the globe.
Terrorist activities have been prevalent throughout the Middle East since the first camel jockey decided he wanted his neighbors watering hole. That occured long before the nation of Israel was founded and certainly long before the US decided to intervene militarily in Middle Eastern affairs.