[matrix_dweller]

Good point. Let's mount an attack now on Libya, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan and any other nation known to harbor and/or sponsor terrorists. Why wait until they do this again? Solve the problem.

The truth is these people covet the power and influence of the United States.

OK, foreign country bombing check list:
Libya - 1985
Syria - via proxy Israel a couple times (what's $3B/yr for, anyhow), plus during Lebanon in 1983-84
Iraq - 1991 - present
Iran - 1987, and via proxy Iraq 1980-1988
Pakistan - scratch that, they have the bomb, (plus we got them accidentally while bombing Afghanistan)
Afghanistan - 1998, Could be a problem since we armed them to fight the Soviets, and they won, but we're better than the Red Army, albeit an ocean plus a few thousand miles away with no direct land route to invade.

Huh, looks like we already attacked all these countries. Maybe they're not only covetous, as you point out, it could be that they're pissed too!

[max61]

Maybe they're not only covetous, as you point out, it could be that they're pissed too!

Oh no, didn't you know that all third world nations are honored to be bombed by our military for some superficial reason?.

The fact is that American's would rather not be bothered to ask the government the "Why's" until such time as it is too late, such as now.

---max

[Frumanchu]

Cute. Now put it up next to a list of terrorist attacks sponsored by these countries or carried out by groups from them PRIOR TO these events. You want to make it even more one-sided...add body counts.

This "oh, they just did it because they were pissed at us and, well, can you really blame them?" defense of the massacre Tuesday is bullsh*t! If being a prosperous and freedom-promoting people is considered provocation, what are we to do? Become barbaric radicals like them so they will leave us alone? Be understanding of a dictator's need to poison and muder his own countrymen? Stand by as an entire region drives in against a people who we believe have legitimate claim on the land they occupy?

It's clear that the most successful propoganda campaign ever executed was the behind-the-scenes one during the 60's and 70's by the communists that has turned out a whole generation plus of spineless Americans who continually criticize one of the only countries that allows its citizens the right to do so. They are so convinced that the government is not to be trusted at all, that every action and word from it is to be met with skepticism, and that America is ultimately responsible for the evils of the world because we happen to have the most influence in it.

Try sticking up for the United States once in a while...it sticks up for you all the time.