I think they're more against what the US did after the event.
If I were to try and justify it (I'm not), I'd talk more about the decades of meddling with sovereign states in the ME. Something for which the UK would also deserve a fair share of the blame. Still, I don't think it's beyond the pale to point out that the CIA had happily been funding a lot of the same groups back when they were fighting against the Russians...
To say that America is now reaping what it has sown is simplistic to the point of silliness, but to chalk it up to a bunch of fundamentalists who hate freedom is just as pointless.
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jonbob loves you, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 23:11,
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Mostly agree.
AQs main beef was with American bases in Saudi Arabia, but they probably would have found an excuse to attack the west even if they disappeared. Nobody misses Osama.
To say that America is reaping what it has sown is not only simplistic but inaccurate - no reaping has occurred, and it probably won't.
I was just pointing out that it would take about 200,000 people to make the books balance.
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