I believe something that people do things for a reason. It may not be a good reason, but in their eyes, their action was justified. I get a lot of arguments when I tell people that the muslim terrorists do what they do for a reason. They get all out of shape, "Are you crazy!? They're brainwashed! What do we possibly do that would legitimize their murder?"
I have to remind them that I said that it might not be a good reason- I personally don't see any good excuse for murder, but I believe that people have fundamental reasons that they do what they do. For example, we can agree that the Germans were willing to move to the radical fascist form of government after world war 1 because of the immense hardships of their economy. Fascism is in its design intended to jumpstart an economy through government corporatism, theres no denying that Germany's crippled economy was the reason that the majority of people were ready to accept the new government. Why was Germany's economy so crippled? Most would agree with me in saying that it was because of the massive "war reparations" that the victorious nations of world war 1 made germany pay. Their industrial base was crippled from war, their male population was significantly reduced from fighting, the NYSE had just crashed enormously signaling the beginning of the great depression, and now they would immidiately have to start paying impossible sums to the victors. I really can't blame the german people for seeking a radical government. The winners of world war 1 could have stopped asking for reparations, could have given germany time to recover but they did it, and they are indirectly responsible for all the acts of the fascist government that they "helped" to install. Is that an excuse for the holocaust? Certainly not. But riddle me this- if you were president of america during that time period, and you KNEW that demanding reparations was going to lead to a radical dictatorship, what would you do?
We KNOW that our involvement in the middle east leads to terrorism. In our eyes its not justified, but it happens anyway. Right now, we have military bases in saudi arabia, which are there to support a dictatorship from being dethroned. Protecting the saudi royal family goes completely against american morals of everyone's right to self-determination, and pisses off a lot of muslims who would like to see a different government in charge. In addition, by supporting the Saudi royal family we are supporting the controlling member of a massive oil cartel which, in collusion with oil production in other countries, effectively controls the worlds oil prices and supply. Why are we doing this? Collusion is completely against our American values of supporting open competetive capitalism- why do we spend hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars supporting an oil monopoly?
I believe that if you really believe in saving american lives, then you support completely getting out of the middle east, including in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Isarel. Its not being a pussy, it being smart- we can't afford to be stubborn or headstrong when lives are at stake. OK, so they aren't justified at all in their terrorism, does that mean that if you are willing to see more americans killed and more of our civil liberties taken away just because you think it would be pussy for us to move out of the middle east now? So when we do they'll have riots in the street, laughing about how they drove the americans out of their land- so what? In the end it means that the government isn't meddling in other countries, and it means that you and your family are safer. This doesn't even mean that all support for Israel would have to completely end- if we were to close all foreign military bases and stop all foreign aid, or even just foreign military aid, we could afford to lower taxes by hundreds of billions. Private citizens could then donate their money to Israeili organizations if they wished. A lot of people already do support israel through private donations to such organizations as the Jewish United Fund, and you can even donate directly to the Israeli Defense Forces.
I know a lot of people will argue with my reasoning, but if you're one of those people that believe the Bush rhetoric that "they hate us because of our freedom" then don't even bother responding because you're too moronic and racist for me to even consider listening to.