Yeah, we've never done anything wrong that would cause another nation or group of people to hate us, ever.
Quote Originally Posted by mcantar18c View Post
So tell me, what did we do to provoke the murder of over 3,000 American civilians on our own soil? (Other than the fact that we're all infidels and deserve to go to hell).
Starting with our instrumental role in the creation of Israel, and running through us dropping a half a million US soldiers in the "holy land" of Saudi Arabia in 1991, we did quite a few things that "provoked" these fundamentalist Muslims. From our perspective each step may be the correct one, but collectively it's easy for them to market and sell it to their populations as the United States has done these horrible things, and is the great satan, etc.

Then there are the things we know are wrong, but have been willing to do because it's in our collective interest. For example, supporting dictators because they allied themselves with the US and turn a blind eye to their atrocities. We saw it backfire with the Shah in Iran in 1979, I'm hoping we don't see a repeat now in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Syria etc.

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