Tim,
America has eliminated 100's of thousands of enemies of America, with high percentages of innocent civilian deaths, through proxies such as Pinoche, the Shah, the Royal Saudi family
Most of the killing done by these people where to wipe out their enemies. Sometimes there enemies happened to be ours as well, but It wasn't like we could just tell Pinochet or the Saudi's to do this, and do that, and kill this person, and jump through this hoop and they would follow our commands. We were dealing with a lot of violent people, not peace loving democrats and perhaps we deserve some blame for that but they had their own agenda. It was more a matter of us overlooking the nasty things they did if they supported us on something, or sometimes putting someone in power and then overlooking their atrocities, then it was having our proxies wipe out our enemies at our command.
When the "collateral damage" includes the death of 100,000's of thousands of innocent sons and daughters, their mothers rightly harbor deep hatred and resentment. The blame, rightly or wrongly is put on America. These mothers pass on that hatred and point of view to the surviving siblings and the following generation. This is the womb of terrorism. Can you now understand why these mothers teach their children that America is the "Great Satan"? Until after there is a sustained shift in American foreign policy and its application as to how it exerts and maintains influence over geopolitical regions of strategic importance, the war on terrorism will be never ending. How foreign policy should change, the cost, and its application are the questions that need to be addressed. The new war against terrorism is only treating the symptom, not the disease. |
