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Why is the last thing anyone seems to want to do is examine the reasons why such hatred might be created? Instead, an enemy must be found. Most unthinking people are happy with the word "terrorist," because as long as someone's doing something about "them" then they don't have to do anything, like maybe reduce their consumption, or maybe get educated about food politics, to give two examples at the tip of the iceberg. No, they can go on living their unchallenging life. The world's problems aren't their fault, it's the TERRORISTS" fault!
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Look, I know why such hatred exists. I've studied the Arab world in depth, hell it's my major. I've spoken to some of the greatest lecturers from that area (Khuri I suggest above all others), I've done my research.
Yes the US does some really stupid things in foreign policy, but their rage exists out of stifled democracy in their own country (according to the people from the region). It is out of this rage that these people redirect it at us. Some blame it on the lingering desire to bring back the Ottoman Empire, some blame it on overpopulation, some blame it on many things. But the fact is these people are killing our sons/daughters/mothers/fathers/etc. for reasons we do not deserve in any light.
However, what you and so many people like you propose, is blaming the victim. It's the moral equivilant of blaming the rape victim for wearing shorts, because if they were in say... a full burka a man could restrain himself.
As for Host, thanks for the time saved... I'll be ignoring your posts from now on. Throwing your hat in with the French who believed the Pentagon was hit by a carbomb now? (FYI my uncle was working at the Pentagon at the time, was only a few hundred feet away when it did hit)