9/11 coverup?

[kandrathe]

I'm no expert in this field but is suspect it has something to do with endemic corrupt autocratic regimes, a large inferiority complex and 'perceived 'unfair' policies against 'Islamic people'. Rather complex and difficult to deal with.

You overlook the prevelance of Imam's distorting the Islamic faith and resurrecting of the notion of centuries old romantic Arab, that with a cultural acceptance of violence as a means for problem resolution makes terrorism by Islamic extremists all that more dangerous. If it had much to do with endemic corrupt autocratic regimes, then why do Islamic terrorists come from every nation, including the US and Britain. Many people are sympathetic to the plight of the down trodden in the middle east, but only when that sense of injustice is combined with the religious doctrine to support jihad at any cost does that sympathy turn to violent action. My view is that this struggle is one of ideologies, and you need to look at the Taliban to see their vision of society. No, thanks.

And, yet I agree that powerlessness, injustice and starving families motivate the desparate, but the hearts and minds of the majority are not persueded by blowing up a school full of children. Rather, it steels the opions of the majority against you. If you take South Africa as an example, changing a states fundamental structure without a civil war is very difficult, takes time and the right amount of influence. There was a time when communist dictatorships and collective farming seemed to be a growing popular movement, and now in many majority islamic nations we see an extreme minority pressing for a form of theocratic Islamofascism. What the US and other western nations are trying to offer these disaffected, is that they should give the Greco-Roman model a chance.

I dont think the Bush administration grasps this.

Well, then the Clinton administration didn't either, as most of the same people are in charge of the NSA, DIA, CIA and FBI. Most people have no clue as to what the linkages are between various states and terrorism. You don't hear much about Iran, but they probably have as much to do with harboring and aiding terrorists as do the Saudi's in funding it. Anyway, in some ways I wonder if we haven't moved into World War 4. I can only hope it continues to be fought one nation at a time. I wonder if Iraq is the US showing they learned their lesson in ignoring the early warning signs of WWI and WWII.