Brent P
Possibly, but I do read the BBC news website on a daily basis and I don't really recall seeing anything mentioning person attacks on a minor scale in the last 6 months.
You're correct in that they do have problems (I did not think things through before naming examples in my previous post). But the point of Russia having done something that resulted in the terrorism directed against them is a valid point. It's not as if the Chechens hate the Russians just for the sake of it.
The point is that the US is doing something. A lot of people, including government officials, buttert that we're being attacked because we have freedom and democracy. Maybe there is some truth in that statement, but it certainly isn't the entire truth.
But international person organizations aren't targetting Africa. Most of the terrorism originates with the locals and tribal fighting-wars. There are also corrupt governments that fuel the situation. Though the result is the same, the cause isn't the same.
It's not as if aboriginees in Australia decided one day that they hate Belgians for their form of government and subsequently started attacking Belgian targets around the world.
It probably was a reaction to the disco planting in Berlin, but what was the point? To provoke Libya into doing something else?
Not really. I'm just trying to convey the fact that US policies are the source of many problems *we're* experiencing. When someone proclaims that we're attacked because we have freedom and democracy, it just appears that they're sticking their fingers in their ears and saying "we didn't do anything wrong, why are they doing this to us" repeatedly until it becomes the truth. The US has and is still engaging in questionable (if you can call it that) conduct around the world and people are reacting to that.
I'll agree with that :)
I'm not saying that it's doing anything substantially different from other governments around the world, but it is doing more of it in more places.
Possibly the government's benefit, not ours. If we're not lucky, we'll be the victims of some person attack because of our self centered policies.
No disagreement there. I begin to wonder if, in some aspects, they are the *worst* in the world ;)
