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In reply to the discussion: "Always remember?" (GRAPHIC WARNING FOR THOSE WITH SENSITIVE DISPOSITION) [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)But don't kid yourself that "it would have happened anyway," or something. Our foreign policy is directly related to the events of 9/11. You do not spend fifty years making yourself an enemy of every state and people in a region of the earth, fund, arm, and support mass murderers, torturers, colonizers, and dictators there while treating the people as exotic stage props, and then act puzzled when someone tried to kill lots of your people.
It's a bizarre sort of cognitive dissonance - what, only Americans are allowed to ruin the lives of millions? We're afforded that privilege because white christians are "better" than brownish Muslims? 'Cause that's been the absolute crux of our foreign policy in the middle east since WORLD WAR ONE. And even after 9/11, after our two wars in the region, we persist in the belief. When Iraqis shoot back, Americans are shocked and offended and call them "terrorists" and use that as an excuse to wipe a city off the face of the earth.