What about the terrorism that takes place in India, is that America’s fault ? Bali, Philippines and Morocco too ?
Actually, it's not the same argument.
I agree with DS. Infact, Osama Bin Forgotten himself states that one of the "other" reasons the US is a target of his entity is because we favor nations that oppress muslim peoples - be it our support of Arab dictatorships or democratic governments in India (which has a long standing feud in Muslim majority Kashmir) or Philippines and their insurectionists.
I wouldn't argue that Morocco is a "victim" of Islamic terrorism. Probably the opposite.
Let me put it this way: I'm old enough to remember when the Ayatollah came to power in Iran on the wave of his "Islamic Revolution". For years, he tried to instigate a jihad against the "Decadent West" using the argument that we were 'corrupt, immoral, given to sin, decadent' etc. (the cliched "they hate us because we are free and prosperous" argument).
Guess what?
Not a whole lot of shit. Try as he might, he was unable to get large numbers of muslims to blow themselves up to defeat America.
Osama Bin Laden doesn't focus his ire on the fact that we have Freeones, titty bars and allow women to work. Fact is, he focuses his mission on key points - all of which can be traced to our "interventionism" abroad... specifically interventionism in the muslim world.
If there was anything I learned as a combat soldier from our abominable debacle in Vietnam (and from my Father's experiences as a soldier in Korea and WWII) --- listen to what your enemy is trying to say. Osama has never hidden his grievances from the West. In fact, he's broadcast it time and time and time again - only we in the West (especially our cowardly so called independent media) don't choose to pay attention.
Those Marines didn't get killed because they were stateside - they got killed because they were in Beirut. This forced even an avid interventionist as Ronald Reagan to reconsider his policy and withdraw troops - by stating that middle eastern politics was simply too irrational for us to comprehend!
Instead of asking the question "what the hell were United States Marines doing in fucking Beirut?" most Americans skipped to the part of finding someone to blame. Hey! Apparently our Government can do no evil. The very same "conservatives" who wouldn't trust the Gubmint to run their local school or hospital magically become true believers when it comes to that same Gubmint running a WAR and rebuilding a nation. I don't know what you folks call it but it smells "hypocrisy" to me.
cheers,