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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry

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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (77231)6/19/2006 4:55:15 PM
From: CogitoRead Replies (2) of 81568
 
>> But the people who make the cries about "root causes" think they know already, and they know wrong, since they view everything through a warmed-over Marxist lens. They insist it's poverty and colonialism even those these explanationa fail the laugh test wrt to Osama bin Laden or Ayman al Zawahiri.<<

Nadine -

Another explanation that fails the laugh test is "They hate us because they hate freedom." That's a good one. You'd think they'd have attacked The Netherlands or Sweden by now if that was the case.

It's no real trick to figure out why Al Qaeda attacked us. They've said why they did it. They've repeated their reasons ad nauseum. We support Israel at the expense of Palestinians, we keep troups in Saudi Arabia, and now, we've added to those reasons by invading two Islamic nations.

I believe the underlying reasons, though, are explained in two words: wounded pride. Bin Laden was an unimportant and uninfluential member of a very important and influential family. He's trying to prove to his dozens of brothers, uncles, and whatnot, that he's a big powerful man like they are.

- Allen
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