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They come to attack us because we are free to choose to stand in their way of their murderous ideologys goals.

That's what Paul should have said.

I said in another thread, they attacked us for two reasons:

1) Because we were there (in the Middle East), and represent a Christian society and help protect a Jewish society (although in a way they need us there, otherwise they have nobody to rail against).

2)More importantly, we prop up Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. As long as Americans were in the Gulf, the extremists could not overthrow Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Those two countries represented their best hopes in taking over large countries.

Afghanistan - for them it was nothing other than the opium fields. Saudi Arabia had a lot of wealth. Pakistan had nukes. Our being there in a large presence since 1990/1991 meant that those two countries were relatively safe (Saudi Arabia moreso).

I think the biggest thing that led to 9/11, besides our blocking them from taking over those countries, is that Clinton ignored them. After the first WTC attack, as well as some of the other major attacks, had Clinton sent our folks in to wipe out the leadership, I think in 2007 people would be going "Osama been who?", and we'd still have the towers.