Regardless of who you blame for 9/11, it was a direct result our own policies. If you think that the US did it, then it's a very direct line of blame. If you hold the mainstream belief that it was carried out by "Muslim" extremists, then the line of blame still leads back to our foreign policy.
It's like this. Some of the senior council members of the 9/11 commission wanted this included in the original report, but it wasn't revealed until later: 9/11 was a result of the United States' unwavering support of Israel, in the minds of some of the commission members.
The question is not whether or not the attack was wrong, because it obviously was an atrocious bastardization of what Islam and the Middle East are really about. The question is whether or not we should stand for a policy that brings that sort of hostility towards us. If it's a worthy cause, then the answer is yes. Is Israel as worthy and just cause?
The answer to that question, in my mind, is no. What Israel has done, and continues to do the the people in Gaza isn't right. The trade sanctions they hold against them are completely out of line--you can't take food to these people, under the reasoning that they might use the materials you give them as some sort of weapon against Israel. People are dying over there every day, and Israel continues to build settlements there illegally.
And even with our scolding of them for such things, we continue to support them in the most important ways. We have veto power in the UN security council, so we serve as the single obstacle to Palestine being a recognized nation in the UN. Us, and only us, because no other country with Veto power would vote against the resolution. We told our own civilians that if they brought any supplies to Palestine, they would be acting of their own accord, and would receive no help from us if they were attacked (again) by Israel, despite the fact that they were unarmed.
My point is that our foreign policy continues to bring hostility towards us. I believe that soldiers in the Army believe they are doing the right thing, but that doesn't mean they are serving in protection of us. It's quite the opposite. Our presence in the Middle East increases anti-American sentiment, and serves as fodder for Extremist recruitment. We're not "keeping the fight over there" because we have to, we're keeping it over there because we won't drop it. If we weren't so involved, there wouldn't be a threat to us domestically to necessitate a foreign police action.
So while our people are dying over there regularly, there are scores more that are dying as a result of us being there, and I'm not talking about hostiles. There are innocent people dying in firefights. There are innocent people dying in terrorist attacks in countries that support our mission in the Middle East, which has been proven in the past to be based on false information. The War On Terror is a self-defeating mission--we are creating the very thing we are trying so hard to defeat, because of our very presence in the area where the enemy lies.
Beyond that, anti-Muslim sentiment has grown to the point that they themselves are dying as a result of hate crimes all over the western world. That is spurred on by media reports that are intended to drum up nationalist sentiment in order to continue support for our worldwide police action. It's not fair to us, the American citizens, and it's not fair to them.
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So...to end my very long, drawn out point...regardless of whether or not you hold the belief that the Bush administration was behind 9/11 or foreign terrorists, the end result is that we must change our own policies before we can put the rest of the world at gunpoint for our own peace of mind.











we would definitely have more attacks if it weren't for military, oh and for the dip shit that says the military doesn't protect us domestically, your wrong because boarder control and the National Guard are controlled by the military. And when I said drug war I meant everywhere and on levels such as Mexico, not just in the south on the boarders of Mexico. And our government killed those 3,000 thousand people? GTFO, our leads are greedy snobs but I don't think they'd do a conspiracy on their own people (doesn't exclude other nations cause I bet it happens every week) because it'd put their re-election at risk (which is all they care about) and believe it or not, there are good people in the government (they are few in number however) that would turn them in and jail them for the crime. That is my opinion and I hope you can't find a crack with this one like the last and are able to put words in my mouth cause I never said things like we don't provoke other governments, didn't mention it, but I did say Al Qaida provoked the USA to fight back (an excuse to deploy more troops into the world, so since you all hate it so much, and I do too, you can thank Al Qaida for giving dumb asses in the USA government an excuse).




