Terrorists Hate Our Freedom; Truth or a Failed Foreign Policy?
I'm sorry, but I just don't believe it. No matter how many times it's repeated, I just cannot believe that their hate for our freedom motivates such actions. There has got to be something else, something that's more substantial, some kind of a motive that can hold up in court. That's something that is never talked about, is it? The motive. We turn on our TVs and see some spot in middle east where a group of people hold up signs that read "Death to America, death to American Satan" and we just shake our heads and say "That's a lot of freedom hating." Funny how, American media doesn't approach the subject besides that overly repeated mantra of "Terrorists hate our freedom." designed to dumb us down to a level where even attempting to fathom the subject is unnecessary, because after all, we know why. Terrorists hate our freedoms.
Enough of the melodrama, I'm not here to second guess the terrorist's motives. I just simply don't know enough to say for sure, however I do know one thing; it's not because they hate our freedoms. One doesn't have to search far and wide to see the truth in that, even our beloved 9-11 commission report states that , and I quote "America's policy choices have consequences. Right or wrong..." p376 9/11 Commission Report. That's right, it's our choices, or more accurately put; the government's choices (because frankly, I don't remember making any of these choices.) that cause these consequences.
Perhaps it was the 1953 CIA's involvement in Iran, or later in Afghanistan, or our early support for Saddam Hussein? It could be even our support for Israel. Does it really matter, anyway? As they say, right or wrong and it's not like we will ever witness a reasonable discussion regarding our foreign policy, much less have a choice or a vote in it.
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Post a Commentunbelievable article comment there ali....you say that it will "never hold up in court." are you saying that islam extremists believe in a free and democratic court system?????? would a terrorist uphold and abide by a judge's ruling in that court you are talking about? you are assuming that these groups of people who hate the united states so much that they are willing to die live in a society where they are allowed to think, talk, and believe in what they believe. keep dreaming
No, no, Kristen. I know what you ment. Though in some cases you might be right, but most leaders had very clear idealogy. Alexander the great, for example, studied under Aristotle. So we know where his rational came from. Neo cons in office today, from Leo Strauss and his works. Al queda, from philosophies of Sayed Kotb. Look it up, fascinating reads.. clearly mad, but fascinating.
Sorry for being vague. I just meant that it's impossible to know what various political leaders are really thinking when they make some of the choices they make. We probably don't truly know what Bush is thinking, what Clinton was thinking, and what others that came before them were thinking (and not just leaders from the US). We get the public statement, but usually not the TRUE statement. Also, this stuff has gone on so long, that it's even harder to guess what the real motivations were of leaders that are now dead.
Kristen, actully. This stuff was written. By Leo Strauss.
Another problem is that this stuff has gone on for so long, that young people, and even new people in office, probably don't fully understand the problem. How can any of us understand the choices of people who are long dead... especially if they never wrote their inner thoughts down on paper for someone to read?
For far too long the Middle East has been viewed as some sort of chess board by many of those in power in Washington. And because they have treated the inhabitants of the region as pawns, they have embedded resentment in the local populace. That resentment at the manipulation of them and their resources is what breeds terrorism, not the hatred of our freedoms.