I hate to bust your fine rant, but you totally misread cothrige’s post. It’s NOT that we so much provoked the Mooselimbs as that we kept coddling the worst of them, the Saudis, by buying their oil instead of developing our own resources, by treating them as good people when they are NOT and by totally underestimating and misreading the level of hate from the Mohammedans toward us and the west, even though we’ve had much evidence over the years. Do you suppose it was helpful to OUR cause to see pics of W walking hand in hand with a Saudi prince on his ranch? Or refusing to do anything besides bloviate after the Cole attack? No, we overlooked and ignored much and it came back to bite us in the butt big time. What do we do next? I don’t know for sure. It’s apparent that we cannot go on appeasing them. It has never worked and won’t at all. Do we nuke them? What do we do? Keeping in mind there are a billion or so of them.
Correction, it was Clinton who bloviated after the Cole attack. I didn’t intend that it look as if I were blaming W. He did enough on his own without adding Clinton’s sins to his.
And then there is Israel and Iran. Here we are, sitting back waiting to see if tiny little Israel, the only nation in the Middle East that doesn't have a holiday dedicated to our destruction, will do something we don't like to Iran. We are throwing Israel, our only real allies over their, under the bus because we want to suck up to who? Muslims! Un-frickin-believable. And people tell me about weakness and softness. You want soft, look at our foreign policy and there it is. This is what America does about Islam and terrorism. In the future when more attacks come down I won't hesitate to hang responsibility right where it belongs. People can say I blame America all they want, but until we admit the facts we cannot fix anything, and really do what needs to be done.