Originally Posted by Lil-trip

The terrorist threat to our nation did not emerge on Sept. 11, 2001. Long before that day radical freedom-hating terrorists declared war on America and on the civilized world. The attack on the marine barracks in Lebanon in 1983, the hijacking of the Achille Lauro in 1985, the rise of Al Qaeda and the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, the attacks on American installations in Saudi Arabia in 1995 and 1996, the East Africa bombings of 1998, the attack on the U.S.S. Cole in 2000. These and other atrocities were part of a sustained, systematic campaign to spread devastation and chaos and to murder innocent Americans.

Of course the terrorist threat did not emerge on 9/11. This is why I am disappointed with Bush, the CIA, the FBI and to some extent Clinton for not doing more to prevent 9/11. There was a huge breakdown. And yes, these attacks were there to terrorize Americans. However, that doesn't really adress the real heart of the issue, which is why these actions are so popular with so many Arabs, and why they continue to have such funding and support. You see the problem is, we give people like Osama and Saddam power, and use them as pawns to fight communists in order to spread "freedom" and "democracy" (read: in order to take power away from the USSR). Then we abandon said countries, and they obviously get mad, and start using some of the weapons we gave them on each other and on us. Then we act surprised.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/08/p...3320d4a&ei=5070

Jus opened up the browser n put n National security, NY times popped up along wit many, n right in some of the first openin statements, thought you wanted the background info since you skipped history 101, dumbass...

You could at least quote somethin relevent from the article, and show how it makes your point.