You want to protect us? Stop starting wars, stop bombing people in other countries

[geek tragedy]

78. We had done nothing bad to Saudi Arabia.

Had done nothing really but buy their oil.

Yet it was Saudis who conducted the 9.11 attacks.

The 1998 Embassy Bombings were in retaliation for . . . arresting and extraditing terrorists.

There is also little attention paid to the fact that Islamist terrorists kill more Muslims than they do Christians and Jews. The Islamist terror efforts are part of a wider game, with different motivations, than merely payback for historic western crimes.

Meanwhile, one didn't see a single Catholic-led bombings against the United States for the decades of humilitation, dictatorship, and genocide we helped commit against Latin America plus supporting the UK's crackdown in Northern Ireland.

So, yes, of course the US should have a more moral foreign policy that doesn't exploit, enslave, and destroy other societies. We have done way too much of that in the past.

At the same time, resolving to be less hard-hearted does not mean we should be soft-headed.