Why terrorists attack America

[Fenir_LacDanan]

True enough GreyMouser, with most of your points.

Unfortunatley, I appear to have miss represented my own.

The point I was leading towards was regarding the general hatred of America by an increasing number of countries scattered across the globe, and basically all of the middle east (bar Isreal, of course).

Any student of history can see numerous attempt's by America to subvert soverign nation's right to choose their own leaders, when it suits their own intrest. The CIA, and other agencies, try everything from supporting revolutions to assination to install a government that will have a more friendly world view.

Bay of Pigs, anyone?

Oft the argument put forward is that America is helping the people of those countries, for they cannot help themselves. This is true in some cases, but most definetly not true in many others.

Politics, also has its place.

The Taliban were shooting weapons at Yank helicopters that Yanks sold them in their war against soviet agression. After the 1991 gulf war, America, for a time, supported a Kurdish uprising in the north, then withdrew its support when the political whims changed, (by the way, leaving the kurds to be brutally crushed by the Republican Guard).

America's friendships, it seems, are fickle.

One wonders if Kuiwait would have been the subject in 1991, and Iraq recently (weapons of Mass destruction??) of, shall we say, American intrest, if they did no house the second largest Oil fields in the world...

America went to war because a foreign government attempted to control and subvert their rights (no taxation without representation, and so on), so why wonder why countries who feel that "American Imperialism" is trying to overthrow their governments (or has in the past), or interferes with their own rights want to fight back?

They only use terror because it is the only weapon they have that they feel is effective. America would crush them in open battle.