Why are Americans so paranoid about their security when they are the ones invading other countries?

Question

The American govertnment think that their country is always being targetted by terrorist. Can't the US Government understand and see that the very reason they were attacked is because they always meddle in the affairs of other countries? Why can't they mind their own business and respect the sovereign rights of other countries?

I am not talking about the american general public. I am talking about the US government, the officials, the politicians.
Muslims may tell their people what to do, but can't US govt respect that its their religion? Has muslims ever told US to shift to Islam?

Hey Billy D, I was actually asleep when 9/11 happened.

Answer 1

Me being an "American," I agree with you. I think the media in the states has also proprogated it to the point where many Americans look on FOX news and see the terrorist level is Red. Does that mean I shouldn't come out of my house? hehe... Oh well. I think we have enough problems at home, and should take care of our own before others. There also has to be a line to cross where we have to "meddle" in other country's affairs, because we learned our lesson in WW2, when nobody stepped in to stop the NAZIs from where they were doing.

Answer 2

I am an American and I can't figure out why the hell we have to meddle in other people's affairs either. Most of the Arab countries have been fighting since God scattered them into the 12 tribes. I couldn't care less what goes on in other countries, violations of human rights, et al. The rest of the world thinks Americans think we are the greatest and that we have so much freedom. We do not. Freedom to be sinful, yes. Free speech? That's a joke. If you disagree with the staus quo, you are unpatriotic. If you think the war in Irag is bullsh**, you are unpatriotic. If you build a website that is "anti-government", the ATF or some other government agency shuts it down. I don't believe we have any business in anybody's foreign affairs, but unfortunately, Americans as a whole, are blindly led by where the media wants to take them, without the notion of critical thought factoring in what they just saw on the television and questioning it being true or right or accurate. I can understand why the rest of the world hates us.

Answer 3

9/11 mostly; USS Cole, and all the way back to Thomas Jefferson, who supported the creation of the US Navy, after having merchant vessels pirated by the Barbars (North African Arabs from Algeria, Morocco).

When the merchant vessel captain asked, why are you making war with the new nation of America, the Barbar chief said "because you did not make peace with us first". So Jefferson paid $100,000 to gain the release of the kidnapped seamen, and to pay more extortion to allow American merchant ships in the Mediterranean Ocean without harassment. Other merchant ships followed, but were also pirated and confiscated by other Barbar groups, who did not recognize the arrangements Jefferson had already made.

Finally, the navy had some vessels, and began protecting the merchant vessels in that area. Those merchant ships allowed America to fund its new Republic, and to defend its new freedoms.

Just in case you wondered where it all started.

They were known as the Barbary pirates.

Their name came not from the native Berber people of North Africa but from Khair ad Din, known in the West as Barbarossa--or, in English, Redbeard. Coming from the ancient Mediterranean piratical tradition, Barbarossa seized Algiers in 1510, effectively making himself the first sovereign of a modern pirate state. His territorial grab should have been a direct threat to the sultan in Constantinople, but when he pledged his fealty to the throne in exchange for a large cut of the action, he was given regency of Maghrib. His descendants�both biological and methodical�maintained control over the shores of Northern Africa for the next two hundred years.

Answer 4

Are you asking a question or trying to make a lame political statement,Maybe the reason you ask this question is because you are a moron,Most of the 9/11 attackers were from egypt,when did we meddle in the affairs of egypt??? Iraq has turned out badly,not because of us,but because all the different sects there hate each other.I don't support Bush,but remember Sadam was no boy scout.The fact of the matter is muslim's want to tell you and I how to live,if you disagree with them they call you the great satan,Wake up, they hate all people that do not agree with them!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 5

Bullies always are paranoid because they're afraid one of those 'nerdy' kids might actually stand up to 'em and down 'em down a notch. Why is North Korea testing nuclear weapons? Because Kim Jung Ill has every reason to believe his country could be the next U.S. target.
We don't mind our own business because we have "interest" to protect all over the globe. We're a nation of greed heads and selfish, senseless leaders. -RKO-

Answer 6

At this point, if we were to be attacked--in your mind, wouldn't you secretly think that we deserved it?
I certainly do.
Think back to before Bush came into office, were there ever any major threats that left you wondering about the security of our country? Actually there were--the first attack on the WTC in which a van loaded with explosives was detonated in the parking garage.
These days, this administration has created such an imaginary fear within all of us--a fear that was never there before. And the US invading other countries (other weaker countries, no less) has left us more vulnerable than ever before!
In my opinion, any attacks that happen on US soil these days, chances are, we deserved it.

Answer 7

well, the US government sometimes interferes with other people's affairs and shows a biased opinion through the media. but sometimes like Pearl Harbor its the US's business. the american people a lot of them atleast believed we were attacked by someone else and thats y Bush took action

Answer 8

we only have a handful of people making those decisions to invade other countries for us, so as an average working american who has no say in the war, we are paranoid because we agree with you. the more our country attacks others, the more its gonna come back to kick our butts.

Answer 9

Because ******* in other countries like flying planes into our buildings and bombing our embassies, ships, etc.

Next time someone steps onto your front lawn to defend a member of your family who had not the means to defend themselves from a bully, ask yourself if you feel like your property was "invaded".

Having allies like Israel and coming to their aid when needed is not meddling in the affairs of other countries. It is defending our own interests and the interests of our friends, not from reasonable, rational people, but from Islamic extreemist wack-jobs, and the like.

Those same wack jobs don't attack us because we did anything, they attack us because they are wack jobs, and if they're gonna attack someone bigger than them, they shouldn't whine when we kick their @ss.

Answer 10

The US was attacked on 9/11. Unfortunately, we have an idiot president who attacked a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 claiming he was a "war president" and we had to stop some weapons of mass destruction; which were not really there in the firs place:

Our bad.