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Originally Posted by stickyfingerz
Why did we have reason to attack over there?
Iraq - a leader that claimed to have wmd, who harbored terrorists, who broke 17 U.N. resolutions.
Afganistan - Taliban leadership, country allowed terrorist training camps that Bin laden ran.
Btw we havent had another attack in 5 years, but there have been many many that were stopped by our government.
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Well, the US had global interests in that region long before the recent wars. Basically, we started building all of these bases in the Middle East to attack other Middle Eastern countries for other bases and oil security. We also helped Israel destroy Lebanon and so forth.
Basically, if the US wasn't a superpower we wouldn't have these problems (since we wouldn't have the big military cock to swing). With power comes... hunger for more power...
You could look up some US conflicts in that region or read Osama's fatwahs that explain why he asked Muslims to wage war against the US. It is all simply because of our hyperpower status... and these recent wars are really fueling the fire.
As you said, we didn't get attacked again, yet. We will and it will become more common in my opinion. They just keep getting more and more recruits, especially from the recent wars... Millions... to tens of millions... some will eventually get in, can't stop them. But, we'll keep fighting on the war against the "terrorists", even though our hyperpower bullshit started it all.