tanstaafl: would you at least be willing to admit that the United States has made mistakes in propping up dictatorships in foreign lands, that repress their own people, to “protect our national interests”… specifically our corporate interests and to protect our oil supply? Osama bin Laden exploits the misuse of American taxpayers money for these kind of things as amunition to recruit and brainwash his martyrs. Do you know what hubris is and where it leads? Absolutist “extremist” ideology is playing right into their hands, and will NOT win the war against terrorism… look at what IS working is Iraq, are you blind? We must be willing to fight to the death and win the war without fear, but we must also recognize our own mistakes and learn from them, and recognize that indiscrimate killing of human beings makes you as evil as the ones you want to defeat.
