You know, I think it may have much more to do with organized crime (mafia,al-queda,taliban... call it what you want) it is all the same) taking over the population of a country, living large (so to speak) while the general populace is starved,punished, and fed lies. Those lies pertain to giving the populace a scapegoat to blame for their problems, instead of targeting the real culprit. We are the scapegoat.
I know our goverment has done many things in foreign countries, that we may be ashamed of (and that's the things we know about). But we can't go back. We must go forward. We want to stop these kind of things. But we are not a BAD NATION, because of bad practices of past leaders.
All of us have done things in our past that we wish we didn't. That doesn't make us all BAD PEOPLE.
No one country is better than another. No people are better than another. It is their behavior/acts that are good are bad.
We are dealing with a group of people (saying they represent a country) that acted in a hostile and murderous manner toward us. I think the President and our government are currently dealing with it in the best way possible. Don't you? (did I get off the subject, or what!)