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Originally posted by Ustwo
Blaming the US for 9/11 is like blaming a woman for getting raped. Sure she looked good in those hotpants and she shouldn't have left her drink unattended, but that doesn't give you the right to drug her and make her your fuck toy.
Perhaps if she were more attentive it wouldn't have happened, but that doesn't mean you don't punish the rapist.
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I hope it will not be considered a personal attack to say that I do not agree with your analogy, and also find it to be very insensitive.
What is being said is that ever since at least the end of WWII, throughtout the cold war and onwards, America has behaved in a way in its foriegn policy that has created many many enemies.
Every innocent civilian that is gunned down in Iraq creates tomorrow's suicide bombers, not Islam - which as a religion is more peaceful and tolerant that Christianity. Bin Laden may well be a maniac, he certainly preaches hate, but his message of hate only reaches people because of the damage done to them by corrupt governments and intolerable social conditions.
America did not bomb the WTC itself, nor did it ask anyone else to do so, but by attacking, undermining, and intimidating other cultures and countries, it created an environment in which it was more likely to be struck down.
I doubt any of the office workers killed in the WTC deserved to die anymore than the average Iraqi hit by a stray American bomb or a panicky bullet fired in the wrong direction (not to mention the occasional rapes, murders and muggings, which ALL occupying forces carry out on foriegn soil)
You have to have understanding of basic facts, if you blow up medicine factories in Africa, if you bomb civilians all over the world because you dont like their governments, if you undermine elected governments everywhere, carry our murders, and everything else the CIA does... you create a wave of hatrid that will retaliate, however strong you are.