I am a believer that the status quo in the Middle East was no longer acceptable. It had boiled over and burned the U.S. badly.
This is, of course, nonsense. The fundamentalist Islam threat to the US was embodied in Al Qaeda, an organization banned in the ME who's leader had been exiled to Afghanistan.
As for "burning the US badly", which ME country - Saudi, Jordan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, UAE, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar or Yemen, burned the US badly between 1992 and 2001? What exactly did these ME countries do to give you the impression you hold????
You don't seem to understand that for many Americans, accepting that the ME has attacked the US is absolutely essential in condoning what we are doing in the ME. Pointing out that OBL has been banned from the ME and that none of the nations states of the ME were behind 9/11 only confuses them.
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