TimmyBoy
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Here is my view on why the US is a target for terrorists. When you examine American foreign policy, we see that the US only gets involved in other countries only when American interests are involved. We have also seen where the US has supported some very unsavory and ruthless characters, dictators that served American interests, yet committed alot of crimes against their own people. I would like to make a case for Bosnia and Rwanda. I myself served as a soldier in Bosnia and am famaliar with the politics surrounding the eventual NATO intervention in this country, which, I might add, came too little too late. The US never wanted to get involved in Bosnia, because their was no interests involved in Bosnia. The US only got involved in Bosnia when it started to seriously threaten Clinton politically with the Sarajevo Marketplace Bombing that made World Headlines. He had no choice but to intervene or become the target of world outrage himself. Yet, there were far far worse crimes committed in Bosnia than the Sarajevo Marketplace Bombing, it just so happenned that this crime made the news. In actuallity, the diplomatic efforts the US was involved in before the NATO intervention was in affect, acting as accomplices to the genocide.
Rwanda is another prime example, where the West could have easily stopped a genocide, knew full well what was going on and the massive scale, but chose not to intervene to stop the genocide because their was no American interests involved. It was a horrible genocide, much like Bosnia, but on a slightly greater scale. Everywhere you look at American interventions, you see a pattern where American foreign policy is based strictly on American interests with very little morality or sound moral principles involved in deciding whether the US should be involved. But because the US bases it's foreign policy decisions strictly on interests, it has made enemies abroad and sown bitter feelings. These feelings and these enemies were the source of where these terrorists come from. American actions themselves can be characterized as terrorist.
The perception, is that the US is in Iraq based on oil interests and not based on the moral principles of freedom or to stop a genocide or an injustice. American consistently has never based it's foreign policy on justice or morality. It is because of this; because of some US foreign policy actions that can be characterized as terrorist in nature, US diplomatic drives based on interests, some of which are criminal in nature, the support of dictators that serve American interests, because of this, America has now become a target of terrorists. It is because of this, that September 11 happenned. America is reaping what it sows. The old addage, you reap what you sow.
Rwanda is another prime example, where the West could have easily stopped a genocide, knew full well what was going on and the massive scale, but chose not to intervene to stop the genocide because their was no American interests involved. It was a horrible genocide, much like Bosnia, but on a slightly greater scale. Everywhere you look at American interventions, you see a pattern where American foreign policy is based strictly on American interests with very little morality or sound moral principles involved in deciding whether the US should be involved. But because the US bases it's foreign policy decisions strictly on interests, it has made enemies abroad and sown bitter feelings. These feelings and these enemies were the source of where these terrorists come from. American actions themselves can be characterized as terrorist.
The perception, is that the US is in Iraq based on oil interests and not based on the moral principles of freedom or to stop a genocide or an injustice. American consistently has never based it's foreign policy on justice or morality. It is because of this; because of some US foreign policy actions that can be characterized as terrorist in nature, US diplomatic drives based on interests, some of which are criminal in nature, the support of dictators that serve American interests, because of this, America has now become a target of terrorists. It is because of this, that September 11 happenned. America is reaping what it sows. The old addage, you reap what you sow.