Al >I think the difference between us is that you suspect mostly the US/Israel and I suspect mostly the Arabs/East
Ok, I accept that. However, there is a link between the two and that is the US relationship with Saudi Arabia --- from which most of the known, alleged, terrorists came and also the funds. There is something strange, almost sinister, in the way the US simply refuses to point any fingers at Saudi.
Saddam has done nothing, likewise the Taliban in Afghanistan. But that's where the US saw/sees the problem although, even a blind man can see, if the mischief comes from anywhere, it comes from Saudi Arabia, America's big ally.
Furthermore, what is hard, even impossible, for me to understand is how terrorism benefits bin Laden or al Qaeda. They are effectively outlaws, certainly fugitives. They belong no-where. They don't even have a country. Yet, conveniently, their presence and their allegedly heinous activities justify all kinds international escapades on the part of the US administration as well as the most stringent repressive measures in the US, itself. And, what is even more surprising, even astounding, is that these "international escapades" are identical to those formulated in the programs which I have already mentioned. It's as if bin Laden knew exactly what the US wanted to do and kindly obliged and furnished a reason by doing some terrorism. |
