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To: one_less who wrote (165788)	7/11/2005 2:41:43 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Well I don't know any terrorists myself so I can't tell what their reasons are and what they are after. Presumably CIA analysts in charge of terrorist groups do. That aside, I am fairly familiar with the modern history of a good chunk of Asia, including ME. Michael Scheuer's views are dead on the money as far as how US is viewed in the ME. In a somewhat oversimplified way, you can see that US support of corrupt regimes who killed and imprisoned any viable alternative political movements has only left the most radical hardliner elements to survive, which is who we are dealing with today. Presumably if more moderate and independent oppositions were to rise to power, fewer people would have reasons to join terrorist groups. Furthermore terrorists are primarily concerned with changing the regimes of their own countries. Their attacks on US and UK are along the lines of "friend of my enemy is also my enemy".