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abrown83
Other than being totally devoid of fact, this sounds great.
Exactly.
Lots of conspiracy nonsense here which sounds great to Trump/Bush hating left-wingers, but not a lot of fact or substance.
George W. Bush, for example, wasn't making decisions in order to enrich himself, his friends, or his allies. Bush, for all his faults, honestly felt he was doing the right thing. That's why he often went completely against public sentiment with his decisions. GW Bush and Bill Clinton were opposites in that regard. Clinton was constantly influenced by popularity and public perception, and sometimes made wrong decisions based upon what he thought would make him look good. Bush was influenced too little by public perception, where he sometimes made wrong decisions due to ignoring the will of the people he represented.
But back to Muslims and their attacks.
You speak of the '70s and '80s, as if they were attack-free. Do you remember the Pan Am bombing of 1988? What about the 1983 Beirut Embassy bombing? Need I go on?
Western action against Middle Eastern countries can be used as a recruiting tool for low-level terrorists, but it isn't the root cause of terror attacks. Truthfully, they can find a million other reasons to sell a "terrorize the West" ideology to directionless young men in those countries, and don't even need these excuses. It just makes it a bit easier for them.
I could get behind the, "Leave the Middle East alone, and terrorists will leave us alone" concept if it were true, but it directly contradicts the ideology of radical Islam, which involves killing all non-believers. By living a decadent Western lifestyle which flies in the face of the stringent beliefs of radical Islamists, we are already their enemy, especially because we are seen as influencers upon the rest of the world.
Seeing concepts such as gay marriage enjoy increasing mainstream world acceptance is much more infuriating to the radical Islamist than the US dropping bombs on some neighboring country.
These are people who can simply never be satisfied. They will always have a reason to hate us and want us dead. You are kidding yourself if you think these attacks are an act of self-defense or protest to our involvement in affairs in their region. You are ignoring the very important religious angle, which doesn't have root in any rational thought or cause.
9/11 was a result of inaction on our part. We knew Osama bin Laden ran terror training camps in Afghanistan. We knew he had grandiose plans to make a big attack on the US homeland. We knew that he was increasing his attacks against US interests throughout the '90s. Bill Clinton chose to do nothing besides fire a few meaningless rockets at perceived training camp sites -- something bin Laden himself actually laughed at.
They got so used to inaction that al Qaeda and the Taliban supporting them were actually caught off guard by our military response. They actually expected us to bristle about it but ultimately do nothing, as we had for the past 10 years.
Clinton was so concerned about his culpability through inaction that he had his buddy Sandy Berger steal documents related to him in the 9/11 investigation from the National Archives. This isn't a conspiracy. Berger admitted it, but claimed the idea was his own (lol).
The bottom line is that terrorists will always be attacking us, and it will only get worse as cheap technology becomes accessible to the masses. I'm still waiting for the first homemade terror drone attack. Those are coming, trust me.
There are two solutions to dealing with terrorists: Kill them, and don't let them into your country.
