"primarily blame American foreign policy for the Sept. 11 attacks"
Does anyone know what specific policies prior to 2001 we had that canadians say caused the attacks?
We love our neighbor, Canada, but we also know it is a very weak, tepid country...devoid of anything that sounds like "the stiff upper British lip type". Check out how many they have in their military to take charge if things go bad....it is really sad.
Does anyone know what specific policies prior to 2001 we had that canadians say caused the attacks?
ANSWER: Clinton's foreign policy. The Canadians are correct after all.
The Canadian answers to the poll are most likely due to their knee-jerk envy of America but it is certainly true that U.S. actions led to the attack.
Al Qaeda makes no bones about the fact that having "infidels" on their "sacred Saudi soil" was enough reason to wage war against America.
America defended the Persian Gulf states (and the vital oil that allows the European nations and Canada to survive as First World countries) against Iraqi conquest and that required maintaining armed forces on the ground in Saudi Arabia.
If America had assumed the role of a defense parasite, as Canada has done since World War II, some other nation would have had to assume the responsibility of ensuring that 70% of the world's known oil reserves were not controlled by a hostile despot and that other nation, and not America, would have been attacked by the al Qaeda religious fanatics.
The best way to avoid attack is to make yourself totally irrelevant so that your potential enemy does not even notice that you exist.
That is the Canadian post-World War II policy for conflict avoidance and it has been very successful for Canada.
We elected Bush instead of Gore?
We helped the Mooslums in Kosovo by bombing the Serbs?
We helped the Mooslums in Bosnia get their own jihadi state?
Oh wait... was it the Kyoto treaty?
Was it Whitney Houston?
A few years ago, an old friend of mine back in Canada and I got into that discussion. He said it was primarily several things. First was the first Gulf War because the U.S. violated muslim soil by setting up bases in their Holuy Land. Secondly, and more long standing, was all the military and economic support Israel gets from the U.S. He actually beielved that if the U.S. were to cut relations with Israel, then Israel could not withstand attacks from it's arab neighbors and would be eliminated, thereby bringing lasting peace to the middle east. Support for Israel is what makes muslims hate America. And then there was the support of the Shah in Iran, a brutal dictator, who was overthrown by the popular will of the people and the U.S> then supported Iraq against Iran (i.e. a brutal dictator against people who were now free from tyranny). And if a nation wants muslim law, the U.S. should not be upset because it was what the people there want. The guy has gonme from liberal to loony left and we haven't spoken since. It was all teh typical America is ahegemony telling other nations how to live so they have the right to be angry with the U.S.
If we're unwilling or afraid to answer that question, we're doomed into the dustbin of history.
The truth shall set our people free.