| akuma587 said: I think the Hamas one is true (was withdrawn shortly afterwards), but Fidel Castro isn't even in office, so there is no weight behind his endorsement assuming it was made in the first place. But did these people ever stop to think maybe if we didn't elect leaders who the rest of the world hated and do things that made the rest of the world hate us that those countries would have no reason to attack us? When did terrorism take off? Once we started poking our dick around in the Middle East in the Gulf War and with the whole Iran Contra fiasco. Did you hear about terrorism before that? No. It pisses people off when you fuck around with their countries just to manipulate them either directly or indirectly (which is generally the perception of the foreign country even if that isn't true). And whatever happened to the ideals of the Monroe Doctrine? Why the hell are we sticking our dick in so many different places, especially when it involves miliatry force? Bonds formed between countries based on economic relations are far more stable in the years to come than bonds based on military relations. Just look at how our relationship with Russia collapsed right after WWII because we got into a pissing contest with them over who could blow up the world more times over and indoctrinate more countries with an ideology.
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Actually, if you look at the history of terrorist acts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents) there are lots of terrorist incidents that started happening in the 1800s ...
In the 1970s international terrorism really started to take off (primarly) because mass communication allowed people to become much more interested in the world outside of their borders. In a large part due to the "Immoral" and "Excessive" lifestyle that Americans live (and because of their massive cultural influence on the world) they became the scape-goat for everything that people saw entering into their culture that they did not like.
Through most of Bill Clinton's presidency there were terrorist attacks against the United States of America and his presidency was (mostly) free of any form of intervention in other countries affairs; in fact, George W. Bush was on track to become just another care-taker (do nothing) president when Terrorists attacked the world trade center on 9-11.
The fact is that international terrorism has far more to do with the internal politics of other cultures (in particular fundimental islamic nations) than it has to do with the acts of the United States.
