Willravel

In the past 10 years, the US lost to terrorism 5 consulate members in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in 12/6/04, 2 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on 6/9/04, 1 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on 5/29/04, 2,992 on 9/11, 17 in Aden, Yemen 10/12/2000, and 19 in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia 6/25/96, totalling in about 3036. I mourn for these people and their loved ones, but ydo you have any idea how many people we have killed in the past 10 years? Do you have any idea how many Arabs we have killed in the past 10 years? Do you have any idea how many Muslims we have killed in the past 10 years? Do you know how many have died because we supply Israel with weapons? And finally, do you know how many of those terrorist attacks that claimed American lives in the past 10 years were carried out by Iraqis?

I do see a downside to people becoming sympathetic to terrorism. Terrorism as a political device is extreemly dangerous and even as a last resort cannot be condoned. I certianally understand their thought process, though. It's easy to interpret the US actions in the past 20-30 years as being that of an empire (and I don't mean empire like the apple, I have nothing against apples and I support them), and empires have no place in a world that claims to be more and more democratic. As we can see throuhout history, the most succesful tool against an empire is terrorism.

To make my point clear: with an empire comes terrorist resistence, always. Whether you believe the US to be an empire or not, our actions clearly draw the connection in many people's minds.