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That’s all predictable: the U.S. has known for years that what fuels and strengthens anti-American sentiment (and thus anti-American extremism) is exactly what they keep doing: aggression in that region.

Sorry, but that is BS. Anti-American sentiment in that reason is fueled solely by American support for Israel and American refusal to bow before a caliphate. If the US pulled completely out of the region, the muzzie extremists would still hate America and seek to destroy her interests.

Remember, this is Glenn Greenwald. He's kind of an anti-establishment government type and very suspicious of almost any government actions.

From Wiki:

Greenwald is critical of actions jointly supported by Democrats and Republicans, writing: “The worst and most tyrannical government actions in Washington are equally supported on a fully bipartisan basis.” In the preface to his first book, How Would a Patriot Act? (2006), Greenwald opens with some of his own personal political history, describing his ‘pre-political’ self as neither liberal nor conservative as a whole, voting neither for George W. Bush nor for any of his rivals (indeed, not voting at all).

Bush's election to the U.S. presidency “changed” Greenwald’s previous uninvolved political attitude toward the electoral process “completely”, and in 2006 he wrote:

Over the past five years, a creeping extremism has taken hold of our federal government, and it is threatening to radically alter our system of government and who we are as a nation. This extremism is neither conservative nor liberal in nature, but is instead driven by theories of unlimited presidential power that are wholly alien, and antithetical, to the core political values that have governed this country since its founding”; for, “the fact that this seizure of ever-expanding presidential power is largely justified through endless, rank fear-mongering—fear of terrorists, specifically—means that not only our system of government is radically changing, but so, too, are our national character, our national identity, and what it means to be American.”