| mesoteto said:
thank you for making my point
i dont think that me wanting to listen to my i pod while sipping some starbucks is what got our country attacked
our government stcking its nosie where its shouldnt be is what did it, its does in fact go back to what i said
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I don't believe that the terrorist attacks on September 11th had anything to do with what Americans did, or what values and beliefs Americans really hold.
In many parts of the world people's faith (in particular the Islamic faith at the moment) is used as a tool for corrupt regimes to retain power; in many of these places people are poor on a level which makes people on welfare look rich, and (as you can imagine) there is quite a bit of misery associated with poverty on this level. One of the most common ways for a corrupt regime to maintain power is to find someone else to be the root cause of everyone's problems, and to use them as a scapegoat. Because of their support for Israel, their 'loose' moral code, and their amazing wealth Americans are one of the prime scapegoats around the world.
Now, when you take someone who is raised to hate the United States (and who's parents, family and friends were all raised to hate the United States) and has difficulty maintaining a decent standard of living for his family, and you give him and his family an unimagineable sum ($20,000) and tell him that he is doing "Gods Work" and will be greatly rewarded in the afterlife if he just kills these evil Americans he will do it.
Changing your foreign policy will not do much to prevent terrorism because it is likely that people who are being told that the US is evil have no knowledge of what you're doing on an international scale.
