"Always remember?" (GRAPHIC WARNING FOR THOSE WITH SENSITIVE DISPOSITION)

[tpsbmam]

163. Oh, please. You're absolving US foreign policy when it most certainly contributed to the hatred of

the United States by these and many other Arabs. Here are just a few ways in which the USA fucked with the Middle East (and fucked the Middle East):

-forced the abdication of Iranian Reza Shah and installed Shah Mohammed Shah Pahlavi. Remember, the guy who was a tyrant? Yeah, that guy.....the one who was ousted and Ayatollah Khomeini returned to power, that one. Maybe Americans held hostage in the American embassy will jog your memory. That was another action against Americans who fucked with a Middle Eastern country, which ended with a revolution and getting rid of the guy who was OUR choice for Iranian ruler.

-siding with Israel, right or wrong, and the Palestinian devastation -- that angers Arabs in all countries.

-and, oops! aiding (along with the UK, China and yes, other Arab countries) the Afghan resistance against the Soviet Union.....the oops comes when fighters who wanted to wage jihad against the USSR, among them Osama bin Laden; look also into Operation Cyclone, a CIA program

-another direct result of U.S. (and other western countries): the 1983 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut. It came in the wake of us intervening in THEIR civil war and trying to install a government to the liking of the western countries.

This is the tip of the iceberg. And yes, our screwed up foreign policies contributed to the hatred many Arabs feel for the US, including those who wage jihads against us and other western countries.