I didn't say the roots of jihad. I said the roots of terrorism.
To clarify for you, (as if you didn't know) I'm referring to contemporary terrorism, (you know, the kind that's talked about on this board 24/7) as carried out against the West by those who feel they have been negatively affected by us in the Mid-East.
It's a simple fact, spelled out quite clearly in the book you recommend, that without oil, we never would have gone there.
We went there for the oil, we brought our money, military, religion and culture with us. At first they welcomed us because we brought the military security they needed, but then they began to discover a lot about our culture they found abhorrent.
It's all in the book.
From a global perspective, what would you expect from a culture that believes it is being torn apart by unwelcome foreigners who won't leave?
It seems a foregone conclusion that they would respond in kind by coming here and trying to tear our culture apart.
Whether you understand it or not, admit it or not, our need for oil is the origin of the terrorism we're experiencing today.
It's something we could have corrected a long time ago, but we never really seemed interested in doing that. |
