“If you think 9/11 happened just because some folks woke up one morning and decided on a whim to fly planes into our public and private buildings because we are a free people, then you might was well refrain from participating in meaningful discussion with regard to foreign policy.”
May I humbly suggest that you need to post something in breaking news informing all who enter free republic that you’ve been appointed doorkeeper for foreign policy discussion here on free republic. You might also wish to make all aware that they must accept Ron Paul’s peculiar delusions before being allowed to discuss foreign policy with their betters.
And, FYI, I do happen to think they flew those planes into our buildings because ‘we are free’. Yes, free, because we have not submitted to their version of Islam and because they see that ‘freedom’ as the largest impediment to the grandiose dreams of Muslim hegemony of the world.
“Perhaps not, but we’ve entered many countries without regard for either their culture or the consequences.”
There are consequences of our “entering” or “not entering any country”. Isolationism does not protect us from consequences.
There are reasonable people in those countries who are more than willing to do business with us. We do not have to set up democracies and introduce Hollywood to their way of life in order to conduct affairs with them.
Your ignorance and unwillingness to discusses possible causes for their attacks does not make me an expert on foreign policy. It just reveals you as one who is afraid to ask hard questions regarding our conduct as a nation among others who are less blessed than we.
For crying out loud. Did you even bother to read the statements from Bin Laden declaring precisely why he deems himself our enemy? If so, you must be like those judges of who discover an emanation of a penumbra in the Constitution guaranteeing the right for a mother to kill her unborn child.
These people are decidedly not our enemies just because we are a free people. They are our enemies because people like you, out of ignorance, want to step into their world and stomp on their way of life because you know so much better than they what is right for them. No better, really, than a huge government of liberal nannies who want to run other people's lives from birth till death.