In your opinion, what was the reason for the 9/11 attacks?

Question

I keep seeing all of these posts that claim Ron Paul said America was to blame for the 9/11 attacks. Being how I was watching the debate when Mr. Paul said, and I will paraphrase, "American foreign policy is the reason these people show such hatred towards us", I don't understand how anybody can construe that to mean "Ron Paul blames America first". Is he not correct in his assertion? Have our foreign policies not led to resentment and contempt from a lot of countries in the world?

I think we all need to understand that our foreign policies have been gaining us enemies for decades. This is not something that any one President or any one party is responsible for. And it is ultimately the perpetrators of the attack that bear the most responsibility (in a literal sense) for their haneous acts.

Answer 1

An argument can be made that we've become a warrior nation and that the heart of our nation has become the Military Industrial Complex.

We have a military budget of $522 Billion. China is second in that category at $63 Billion. The reason for this is because we've been told by our leaders for the past 100 years that we must police the world. That may have been true when Teddy Roosevelt started that policy, but it isn't true anymore.

Conservatives say that the liberal philosophy of wanting to take care of everyone from cradle to grave is wrong. Well isn't the basis for that liberal philosophy also found in the philosophy of policing the world? How do we demand that government keep out of our lives but not out of the lives of the rest of the world?

When Teddy Roosevelt said "Speak softly and carry a big stick" he didn't mean to use the stick to poke around in everyone else's business. He meant it as a simple warning to other nations not to poke around in ours.

We have no need or right to have bases all over the world. Right now, it could be argued that the American military has been and/or is being used to protect American economic interests. That's just plain immoral to me.

We should send our troops out to protect our security and our freedom after diplomacy fails. We should not send our troops out to protect American corporate interests. Right now, it can be reasonably argued that Americans are dying to feed the Military Industrial Complex.

Answer 2

How soon the Liberals forget that the Democratic party made the president of AIPAC the Chairmen of the DNC back in 1997.

Historically Democrats have supported Israel far more than Republicans have,

From President Carter increasing aid to Israel from 80 million a year to 6 billion a year in 1977,

To Bill Clinton who ordered that Apache Helicopter's that were supposed to go to the 101st Airborne Division, instead be sent to Israel.

Can anyone remember Israel ever dismantling any settlements when a Democrat was in power ?

Israel sure dismantled all the Gaza settlements when Bush was President, now didn't they ?

9/11 was the result of Clinton keeping American soldiers in the muslim holyland for 8 years after the Gulf War.

After the first President Bush, publicly stated that all American soldiers would be withdrawn as soon as possible after the Gulf War.

Answer 3

Ron Paul is right.

I think 9/11 was as much an attack on our egos as Americans. We always had the idea that we’re untouchable. In the long run 9/11 didn’t hurt us that bad but it damaged our psyche as a nation so much. All the sudden we weren’t untouchable and the world was a hell of a lot scarier. I just wish we’d start making friends and less enemies.

Answer 4

For any dupe that actually thinks Al-CIAda attacked us on 9/11 then all of the standard answers by the GOP will satisfy your curiosity. However if one actually turns off the TV and does some reading it is plainly obvious that the US government attacked US on 9/11.

Why?

MONEY, OIL, MONEY, OIL, OIL, OIL, MONEY, CONTROL, NEW WORLD ORDER...to build a new Rome.

It's basic "Law and Order". Who benefited the most from the "crime"? I would say the OIL companies and the "defense" contracting industry. We now have a huge private army (Blackwater USA) that would never have existed without a "new pearl harbor"...as PNAC put it in Sept. 2000. We are now expanding the size of the military and doubling its budget...something NeoCons have been howling for since the Soviet Union went down in flames in 1991. These tards want to rule the world.

Answer 5

I guess if we forget history we can blame it on US foreign policy ...... But if we include history and our history with radical Islam goes all the way back to July 1785, when two American ships and crew were held for a ransom of nearly $60,000. In 1786 Thomas Jefferson, then US ambassador to France, and John Adams, then US Ambassador to Britain, met in London with Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja, the Dey’s ambassador to Britain, in an attempt to negotiate a peace treaty based on Congress’ vote of funding. To the US Congress these two future Presidents later reported the reasons for the Muslims’ hostility towards America, a nation with which they had no previous contacts.

“…that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman (Muslim) who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise.”

Sound familiar.... We are so busy looking for any excuse to blame the US for world problems it seems that the answer to the attack (9/11) has been asked ,answered and ignored..

Answer 6

To think a forum like this could come up with answer is foolish. The answer is very complex. On some level it is our support of Israel, on some level it is us being in Saudi Arabia On a very real level it is the people of the middle east themselves embracing American Culture. Osman and his buddies do not like Muslim going into Starbucks but Rather then attacking them or boycotting they respond with violence

But in the final analysis the problem is radical Islam. They caused the 9-11 attacks. People following a code of death and destruction bombed us.

Thinking that we are responsible for 9-11 is the same as asking a woman who was raped "What were you wearing". If they do not want us in their countries there are diplomatic ways to address that matter instead they choice a path of violence

Answer 7

Islamic extremists hate the fact that we support a JEwish state, they hate that we have things like promiscuity and homosexuality, and they hate the fact that we have freedom of religion. But there are way too many factors to consider. Think the Soviet Union was tough? This is a differnet breed of animal.

Answer 8

Radical Islamic fundamentalists hate our involvement in the Middle East, both in regards to our support for the State of Israel, and what they see as our meddling in the affairs of Muslim nations. They feel without our support, Israel would have been destroyed long ago. They also feel that we have no right to be involved in the affairs of Islamic nations, and that our involvement has kept secular Islamic leaders in place.

Answer 9

US government knew about 9/11 and not only let it happen, but gave it technical assistance, however, some of the claims of complicity are false, such as the ''no plane theory'' and the ''pod theory,'' -that's just distracting disinfo, designed to steer your attention away from the real complicity.

Well what do you know, I'm getting thumbs downs for stating a fact. When will you people wake up? when will you people stop being so ignorant? How deep will the denial go?

Have I just said ''9/11 was an inside job''?

NO.

I said that they had foreknowledge of the attacks.

THERE IS A DIFFERENCE.


This isn't some ''conspiracy theory,'' -it's an extensively documented fact, proved beyond reasonable doubt, the evidence of foreknowledge is available to all who bother to find out.


If you truly want to understand the events of September 11, then concentrate on the REAL evidence of complicity, ignore the demolition hoax's, no plane hoax's, Rumsfelds ''missile confession'' Silversteins ''Pull It,'' and the ''9/11 was an inside job'' accusations, the US are complicit, BUT other countries were involved, it wasn't solely the US.

I would strongly suggest reading ''The War On Freedom'' by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed. ''Crossing The Rubicon'' Michael C. Ruppert. http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/ http://www.oilempire.us/


If 9/11 means nothing to you, then carry on believing in the ''Muslims hate our freedoms'' bedtime story.

Answer 10

I put the blame totally on the monsters that committed that heinous act. Radical Islam is a cult of hate, submission and abuse. The men that follow Muhammad are doing so because abusing women and children and killing infidels excites them. They are a group of men who want to blame everyone else for their inability to control their own destiny's.