9/11 occured prior to our going into Afghanistan or Iraq.
We do not dictate the oil policy of places like Saudie Arabia. The US is not a part of OPEC.
Countries like Saudie Arabia are only too eager to have their citizens hate the US. Why? Because it redirects their hatred to the US instead of their own government which oppresses many of their citizens.
The US gives foreign aid to many countries, unfortunately, many of the leaders do not use the money to help its citizens but instead pad their own pockets with it.
An example is Saddam Hussein. With all the money that was entering Iraq in oil sales, and for all those palaces that Saddam had, so many of the people of Iraq lived in poverty, the ones he didn't gas, anyway.
It's the same in other Middle East countries. The US isn't holding the average person back over there, their own governments are.
These countries use sharia law, a very lopsided law, one that kills women that are raped, while the rapist lives.
Non muslim countries that have allowed sharia law into their country have soon regretted it, and have difficult times getting rid of it.
Why is the UN so silent about these things? Look at the Sudan. All those thousands of deaths. Muslims killing other muslims that they deem 'not fundamentalist' enough, and Christians, too.
Kofi wanted to wait another 30 days, said it wasn't genocide. Sure Kofi.
The French beefed up the Sudan border, on the OTHER side, to prevent people from escaping from their murderers.
These terrorists have been around a long, long time. They simply are more obvious about their intentions now.
In 1974 when I was in France I took a picture of Algerian demonstrators at Sacre Coeur. A few days later when our plane was over the Alps, they announced that the Algerian demonstrators had blown up one of the basiliques of Sacre Coeur.
Now it makes sense, just as muslim fundamentalists destroyed the Buddhas and other religious shrines and artifacts of other religions.
THEY have called for a jihad (holy war), that isn't about economics.
Posted on Oct 24, 2004, 11:48 PM from IP address 63.184.161.165