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Originally posted by theking
The point about 9/11 is not where individual hijackers come from. The point of 9/11 is...attacks on the continental USA will not be tolerated...and the terrorists are from Muslim countries.
There were multiple reasons for the invasion of Iraq and one of those reasons was to send a message to the Muslim countries...get your act together or face the consequences. The USA will dismantle every Muslim country, one by one, if they are perceived to be hostile towards the USA...including Saudi Arabia.
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And the above is a perfect example of why Bush is widely seen, not only in the Middle East but in Europe as well, as the greatest threat to world peace for decades.
It is also a perfect example of why the US face a terror threat. That kind of attitude of "we will reshape the world whichever way we please" is what have made it easy for the terrorists to recruit. With the invasion of Iraq in blatant violation of international law, all the terror groups and fundamentalist groups can for years keep on pointing to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars as proof of what they have been saying for decades: That US is anti Islam and only care about Israel.
Far from creating safety for the US, the Bush approach is making it so much easier for the terrorists to proliferate. The Bush administration fail to recognise that threat of dying in battle against the US is not seen as a threat by a muslim fundamentalist who believe that dying in holy war means immediate ascension to paradise, and that anything seen as US aggression against Islam makes it easier for fundamentalist clerics and terrorists to justify any and all violence against US interests as holy war.
Fighting against someone who have decided to take up arms because they believe in a cause and consider it an honour to die for the cause is a whole lot different from fighting against a drafted or hired regular army.