Hard fact: America brought 9/11 on itself

The Mideast has been fighting amongst itself for thousands of years... long before the US and Hitler, and long before the UN. The terrorists attacks of 9-11 occurred simply because they thought they could get away with it. They were mistaken. The Islamic terrorists consider anyone who is not Muslim to be fair game, that is why you hear people like that nutjob president of Iran... and also bin Laden.... say stupid things like convert or be destroyed. When the Islam Extremists have their goal as the entire world under Muslim rule, then that puts the lie to your ill-advised contention. When you consider that Western bases and interests from many different Western countries have been subjected to at least hundreds of terrorist attacks over the last fifty years or so simply because we don't follow Islam... it is not a matter of something that we were the cause of. I do intend to see that we are the finish of it however, regardless of how long it takes.

Actually this dicussion should be titled Hard Lies: America did not bring 9/11 on itself. Let me explain do women bring on rape by dressing a certain way. Look you and the people the believe that kind of cr*p like that, do not get demonized because they speach cold hard fact. The reason you and the people the believe that cr*p is because you turn victims into the problem, and problem into victims. I loved how you brought the Jews into this discussion. I do find it funny that the this group is alway the problem just like USA is the problem. I know that you did not call them by name but what else could you be talking about. If the League/UN had not give the Jew land in "Palestinian" the whole Middle East would be just one happy place. Now you say that 9/11 where brought on by the results of America itself, how so. Come on you wrote the discussion, you say that you have hard fact, but all I see is basless attackes on this country. Nowhere in your discussion did explain why America deserved the attack on 9/11, or how America could prevent another attack that was brought on to herself. Also why you are on that explain why woman deserve to be raped, because I am sure you believe that they brought it on themselves.

There is a military intelligence term called "blowback". It refers to a situation where events that have been manipulated blow up and result in repercussions to the USA. For example, where the US interfered in the elected government of Guatemala in the 50's, resulting in Nixon's cavalcade being stormed by rioters when he visited South America a few years later. The government is very careful to keep American citizens ignorant of what's going on in other countries and how the US actions affect those countries. That way when American's are bombed or attacked due to "blowback" everybody can pretend it just came out of the blue and there is no reason for it.

Wright was not the first person to suggest that America's actions in other countries contributed to the attack on 9-11. No one with a functioning brain would honestly believe a group of people just attacks because "they're jealous of our freedom". That's a lie perpetrated by ignoramuses who want to believe America can do no wrong. Evil begets evil, and while America might not be a particularly "evil" country, we can't boast about being a perfect country. We've done our fair share of bad things. Meddling in middle eastern affairs would have had to definitely ruffled a few feathers. While I don't believe the bombing of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, or the wrongs committed in other parts of the world really contribute much to what happened on that September day, I understand where Wright was going with his speech. Karma - you gotta love it.

Have you been listening to Rev. Dr. Wright? lol And just how do you think America brought 9/11 on itself? Or do you know why you say that? I was born in the US and have lived here all my life, so I feel pretty confident in saying that America did NOT bring 9/11 on itself. Sure, with 8 years of Bush in office, we have not had any great relations with most of the world's countries. I blame him and his office for that; he doesn't have a clue about foreign policy. Hopefully, our next President will. Your own country isn't in such good shape, is it? I just read that 68% of Zambians live below the poverty level. HIV/AIDS is rampant in your country - nearly 1 million Zambians have HIV or AIDS; over a half-million Zambian children are orphaned; and life expectancy at birth is just 40 years. Tell me, did your country bring these things on itself? Just wondered about your thoughts on that.

Let me get this right. Some Idiot from Germany back in about the 1930's-1950's is partly to blame for innocent americans dying in 2001????? How the hell did you come up with that one? Do your research first. The people who attacked were not Jewish or trying to attack Jewish people. They were angry because american are free and they are not.The attacks of 9/11 were horrid and left many innocent children orphaned, men and women widowed and terror across an entire nation. How would you like those angry extremists to come and attack your country? I bet you would be singing a different tune. Innocent people never deserve to die like that. These extremist believe that by killing innocent people just for the simple fact that they live in america or are american they will be pleasing Allah or doing some kind of good. I think Muslim people are just fine and great...just like christians, buddhists and all the other religions. As a whole muslim people are generally good. Its the extremist who go crazy and blow up babies that are bad. How would you like to see a toddler with a bomb strapped to him come at you? Thats one thing american soldiers are having to deal with. America is not always right...nor is any country. Do you think you're family/country deserves to be bombed by people that have been angered by your country? Think before you speak and get your facts straight. You started a very hot discussion and thats good. But i strongly disagree with you and am very offeneded by your assumptions and "hard facts".

So the creation of Israel is justification, overall, to blow up 3000 innocent civilians? What a ridiculous comment. Nothing excuses terrorism. What does Korea or Darfur have to do with Islamic terrorists in foreign affairs? And the US' aim in pre9/11 Iraq was to free Kuwait from Iraqi invasion, while Somalia was humanitarian aid.

Religious differences created the problems in the Middle East. They existed long before the US existed and if the peoples of the Middle East cannot learn to share the land with respect for one another's views, the problems will always exist! Furthermore, the logic of the US bringing the events of 9/11 on themselves is valid ONLY if you also believe the rest of the world has brought the intervention of the US on themselves! It IS time someone started taking responsibility, but once someone starts pointing that out they start to receive the pain of bringing it to light. For instance: YOU probably feel the attacks of individuals arguing against YOU are because you are advancing a difficult but honorable point (unless you started the discussion just to get responses and could care less!). The US finds itself in a similar position. The US has wisdom and knowledge to give the Middle East (and the rest of the world), but many people are resistant to it. Resistant to the point of killing people to keep others in their circles of influence from hearing the message. It is the US who has promoted law and order in the international community so groups and individuals who oppose that will always hate the US. They will always believe they have an excuse to do evil against the US. That will not change the desire of the US to do good in the world. In fact, it usually drives the US to act even stronger. Hence, the Middle East has brought this all upon themselves? Chickens coming home to roost can be a good thing. If you kill all your chickens for attempting to leave in the first place, you'll never know that!

I'll agree in so far as saying that the US government's foreign policies have certainly contributed to negative feelings worldwide. The attacks have nothing to with hatred of our freedom, our success or anything that Bush has told us were the reasons for the attacks. They do not see capitalism and democracy as those systems operate in the West, enabling people to achieve prosperity and individual freedom. Instead, people living in those countries identify free enterprise and democratic values with the corruption and repression they have endured, which have been supported by US policies. The government is known for propping up a dictator, then vilifying him once it has no more use for him. Even Saddam Hussein was propped up, given weapons to use against Iran, and his transgressions were overlooked until the US needed somebody to blame for 9/11. I'm not saying he wasn't a bad guy who didn't need to be removed from power and tried for his crimes. But there are dictators all over the world who are responsible for atrocities against their own people, and they are ignored because they're US trading partners, or because they have superior weapons. There is a disturbing tendency to view such regimes in caricature, regarding right-wing governments as valuable friends whose repressive excesses must be ignored or excused, while perceiving leftist insurgent movements and governments as mortal threats to America's national interest, justifying a posture of unrelenting hostility. I grew up in the US, and I love my country and I love my people. But quite honestly, the US people are not getting the whole picture. They get their news from CNN and Fox News, which are hardly unbiased, and there is so much information that isn't being broadcast that they cannot possibly see what their government is doing or has done. It's always interesting to read the news reported in Canada and other countries and then compare it to what's being reported in the US, and see how much information is missing. There's a reason that photographs of caskets coming home from the war are not allowed to be photographed and it has nothing to do with disrespect to the families of the soldiers.

I agree 911 IS AMERICA's FAULT. What do you expect after years of going to other countries and screwing them over. Yes the chickens sure did come home to roost. If America wasn't such a bully trying to be the policeman of the world foreign relations would be a lot better. Al Queda doesn't have anything on America. America is the worst terrorist ever created. What goes around comes around.

"Foot in mouth and head up @ss.. so whatcha talking bout? Difficult to dance round this one till you pull it out!" You must have been high when you posted this. And based on your lack of response to any of the very valid points all of your responders have made... I think you crawled back in whatever hole you crawled out of to post this. Shame on you! Your post comes out of lack of education, jealousy, and downright ignorance! Go back and do some reading on what REALLY caused 9/11. Then come back and apologize for the statement you made. You are entitled to your opinion, yes.. but NOT at the expense of MANY THOUSANDS of human beings that were killed that day. BTW... they weren't all Americans The NERVE!