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Also a lot of this situation seems to boil down to a hatred of America, if only the American goverment had changed their foriegn policys perhaps this never would have happened.
I removed the author's name in the quote above to just take the statement at face value. In doing so, I hope to make all those who blame the US for what happened realize the other side of the coin if the US hadn't been involved in world affairs
True, not much could be said to dissagree with this. If the US would have changed their policies since the end of WWII, perhaps the attacks of 9-11 would have never happened (I say WWII because before that the USA were in isolation).
In fact, I'm pretty sure they never would of. Probably not for the same reasons you are thinking about. The truth of it is that if the US wouldn't have done what it has done in the past, most of the world (with the exeption of the US, Canada, Australia and a few minor countries) would have been under the fist of the still-standing USSR.
That's right, all of Europe, all of Africa, all of Asia, all of the Middle-East and most of South America under whoever was ruling the USSR. You would have no freedom, secret police arresting people left and right, executing them for crimes that aren't crimes.
Most of us we appauled by what was going on in Afghanistan when the Talibans were in power. That's what the entire world would have been like if the US would have fallen back into isolationnism at the end of WWII. Just to make you think a little more, it would all be either Nazi or Communist if the USA hadn't come out of it to fight during WWII.
You tell me which is better! To have a 9-11 to pay for our involvement or to have a totalitarian regime headed by an Hitler or a Stalin rule the world?
Personnally, I take a 9-11 over the other (though it's desastrous, it's an evil we unfortunatly have to live with
). If you live in one of those regions, you should be gratefull for the US involvement on the world scene rather than blame them for everything!
We live in the world we live today only because the USA are the USA. They are rightfully the super-nation of this planet. Don't blame them for what was done in the past for it was done so we could live in the world we have today... and it's not bad at all compare to the alternate!
The problem doesn't lie with the US involvement on the world scene over the last 60 years, it lies with us being HUMAN. We are the ones that need to change. We need to take our responsibilities and be gratefull for the involvement of others rather than blame them for our misfortune when we are to blame!