NJ5 on 13 October 2008
| Kasz216 said: As for the EU also following the US in interventionism... What about like... Spain? |
Spain had troops in Iraq and they still have troops in Afghanistan AFAIK.
They don't curse American interventionism nearly as much as just American culture which is seen as incongruent with their culture, just like a lot of things are incongruent with religious fundamentalists.
I still don't know where these statements are coming from... I see Middle Eastern people complaining about USA's "imperialism" much more than about USA's religious, economic and societal values. I guess we have different experiences, and both of us are speaking more about those personal experiences rather than hard and verifiable data.
Which is easy to create since there are plenty of different people in the world. Take some really poor person and show them the lives most americans live without even knowing or caring the shit they go through and it's going to cause quite a bit of antagonism without intervention.
You're mixing up two different things... The cause for terrorism is one thing, the justifications used by the higher-ranking terrorists to convince the lower-ranking terrorists is a separate matter (I'd also be surprised if they didn't use mentions of interventionism as part of the recipe to generate hate).
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