Quote:I agree with you regarding 9/11.  I think it would be safe to say that 2001 was the beginning of the war on Terror.  Here's something I always found stupid, and didn't understand how anyone could buy into it--- Right after 9/11 everyone was asking, "why"  why did they do this.  And the Bush/Cheney administration decided to say it was because "they hated our freedom".  What a load of Mike Mularkey.  I don't understand why anyone would think this was a legit.  The USA was a superpower and the beacon for western civilization since for the longest time.  The middle east didn't just wake up and realize that we wear jeans and our women vote and shave thier legs.  It was the stupidest reason and is part of the problem we still have today.

 

Many still do no understand why middle easterners, specifically from certain countries are wanting to attack us.  And it's not because of our western society.  They are attacking us because of our imperialism, that's my take on it.

 

One thing to back up my point...  Iran is a theocratic country.  But, besides postering, they are not involved in any of these terrorist acts.  Yes, one can say they fund certain groups, but they are not directly involved.  It's not about religion, it's about something else.  These specific middle easterners feel wrong by the USA's involvment in thier lands and are lashing out.  I don't believe this has anything to do with religion.  It's much simpler than that.  Now, don't get me wrong, ISIS is clearly using religion to recruit individuals, to make the fight bigger than just thier own self interests.  

 

 

 

I have to say...  THIS IS A LIE!  We fought off the russians and gave afghan back to the afghan people.  We fought of sadam and gave kuwait back tot he Kuwaities.  We gave Iraq back to Iraq.  We didn't even take the oil resources that we could have taken that is now being used to fund the largest terror group in history.  We spend billions of dollars defending Saudi Arabia.  

 

Those aren't acts of imperialism!

 

I'll make it really simple, there is a young girl in Iraq.  She just woke up this morning.  She is probably about 9-10 years old.  her life now is as a sex slave.  No matter how much she kicks no matter how much she screams she is going to be rapped, over and over and over again.  As she is lying there feeling their hot breath on her skin, being violated in ways that she isn't even old enough to understand, what imperial sins are you going to accuse her of?  Did she inspire bush?  Was she in on the meetings with Dick Cheyne?  

 

There's a woman in Saudi Arabia that wishes she could go to work without her fathers permission.  She wishes that she could drive a car.  Is she being punished because she worked at the state department?

 

There is a gay man in Qatar that is about to be thrown off of a building.  Are you going to tell him that it's ok, he deserves it because he worked at the state department.  

 

Trying to excuse these acts or worse, blame the US is frankly despicable and you should be ashamed of yourself sir.

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