humanities.philosophy.objectivism

On Feb 27, 1:17 pm, Potroast wrote:
>  - RADICAL MUSLIMS GAVE POLITICAL NOT RELIGIOUS REASONS FOR CONDONING
>
> > ATTACKS, the poll showed.
>
> Anyone think one or more of the following might have anything to do
> with why 9/11 happened?  (and why most of that 7%of radicals don't
> feel too cozy about Americans)
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAVAKhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_settlementhttp://www.krysstal.com/democracy_whyusa03.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades)

Well, actually, no. I don't think *any* of these things had *anything*
to do with 9/11. What caused 9/11 was the fact that (1) the US
orchestrated and funded a Muslim insurgency against Soviet
Afghanistan, which provided a bunch of folks with an experience they
hoped to repeat, (2) many Muslims were really pissed off at the
massive staging of troops on holy soil in Saudi Arabia during the
first Gulf War. The 2003 invasion of Iraq had very little to do with
it, unless time travel is involved.

That doesn't prevent the aforementioned ambitions and resentful from
using facts real and imagined as a part of their *propaganda*. But
there's not a helluva a lot one can do about that. For example, Bin
Laden claimed that we were orchestrating the Bosnian Serbs in their
massacres of Bosnian Muslims. Since the reverse is more nearly true,
I'm not sure what *we* do played *much* of a role in determining Al
Qaeda motives. One would be better served analyzing the internal
family melodramas of Osama Bin Laden, Congressman Charles Wilson's
powers of empathy, the physical properties of airplane fuel, the
effects of clinical depression on the ability to modulate aggression,
the geopolitics of seventh century Arabia, the invention of the
concept of God by the ancient Hebrews, and so much else besides.
Otherwise you too succumb to fantasies about omnipotence. The world is
way too messy for that.

By the way, you may not have heard that I trademarked "America Is
Always Wrong." My lawyer will be touch shortly.