For years, the United States has been an aggressor nation, especially in the Middle East where U.S-made arms supplied by U.S. taxpayers have been used by Israel to subjugate the Palestinian people. During the past 11 years, the U.S.-led embargo of Iraq has led to the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children, largely caused by malnutrition and poor medical care.
The United States is widely viewed in the Arab community as an armed bully whose pro-Israeli policies have resulted in the deaths of thousands of innocent Arab civlians. Is it any wonder we are the target of terrorism?
Yesterday's violence was an act of revenge. We brought it on ourselves. It's high time we stopped meddling in the foreign affairs of other countries. And for goodness sake, let's stop acting like a "superpower" thug. As we discovered yesterday, there are people who will bully us back.
When we exact retribution against the terrorists behind yesterday's attack -- as we surely will -- let's make sure we find and strike the right target. We don't need to create any future terrorists.
You are absolutely right, terrorism is usually a response to some past action. That does not make terrorism or revenge right, it is wrong, but it most certainly is a cause and effect relationship. Only an idiot would not see the terrorism in Britain, the middle east, and elsewhere in the world and not know that there was a reason the crazies thought they had a reason for those terrible terrorist acts.