Again none of these actions by terrorist are in self defence.
Maybe not in reality, but do you think that their "handlers" don't have them thinking that that's the case?
For example, take a look at the REAL reasons for bombing Kosovo:
Roots of Allied Farce Does that not make for GOOD info for convincing a terrorist cell that it is making war
on a country that rolls around the world like a loose cannon?
Is the slant that they put on our actions correct?
Not always (although the fed HAS done things that it shouldn't in various parts of the world
-not to mention at home-), but those actions are certainly used in propaganda against us.
If even a handful can be proven true, then the rest need little -if any- proof to have slant taken as reality.
Then you end up with people willing to die to make their point...
even if it means killing people who were not involved and may not even have approved.
My personal opinion is that, although we might have taken other actions that would have worked
better in the long run, we HAD to take a public stance and show that we will not be pushed around.
OTOH, we definitly need to take a good look at the root causes for all of this and deal with them.
Foreign policy over the last -- decades bit us on this one (again).
We will win this battle.
But winning the war will require more than a "hate and kill them all" attitude.
(Which is what my original post on this thread was trying to say.)
The germans before the war said that British and French foriegn policy was the cause of the misery of the German people.This became irrelevant when they invaded Poland.Our job then became to defeat them so that they will never pose a threat in the future.This must also be the current goal. If I look at history America has been the most restrained world power ever.Do Canada and Europe feel a threat from America? I am not interested in how a terrorist views America foriegn policy except to use that knowledge to defeat them.
Even if we had no policy in the middle east that would also have been used against.They would have said America can not afford to ignore us.So the we come up with apolicy and thier response is not good enough...you infindels will never satisfy us until you become muslim. Just like the nazis you can not reason with them.