[misterrob]

The point that I was making was that we had a hollywood persona making comments about history/current events that were not really all that accurate. Yes, if she had said Muslims or Arabs then I could see her point but to say Al-Qaeda should be grateful to us was a bit much.

[lentulusgracchus]

Yes, if she had said Muslims or Arabs then I could see her point but to say Al-Qaeda should be grateful to us was a bit much.

No, it isn't.

We helped them a great deal in convincing the Sovs to withdraw from Afghanistan. We kicked Saddam out of Kuwait, and then we knocked over his brutish regime. We didn't wage "war on Islam" or anything like it. We have done them a couple of fat favors -- yeah, sure, it was in our own interest too, but does anyone here think for 20 seconds that they'd have succeeded on their own? -- and they have rewarded us with violence, vitriol, hatred, and death.

Bo got it. You're just irked she didn't drop by an AAU-listed university for a degree you respect, before she ventured an invited opinion.