In a way, yes.
American foreign policy over the last few decades has hardly helped matters. Trouble is, most Americans are massively uninformed about world events or even what their own country is doing overseas... not exactly a criticism of Americans mind, more a criticism of media and news programmes that oversimplify or sometimes just plain ignore events from the rest of the world. While the actions of America as a country may well have lead in some part to the attacks Americans themselves as a whole felt justifiably shocked and stunned - in part because they where unaware of the various different factors and politcal manouvering that their own country was engaged in that played a part in what happened. I honestly wouldn't go so far as to say that America deliberately provoked the attacks, or the thousands of innocent people who died 9 years ago in some way deserved it - but American foreign policy before and after the event has a lot to answer for. Of course the people who drew up those policies and implemented them weren't the ones who suffered... but then again they rarely are.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 15:00, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

I hardly think Al Queda woke up one morning and threw a dart board a map to find where to attack.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 15:05, Reply)

The people didn't deserve what happened, but the country did.
I can't believe they voted Bush in a second time, or even at all after what his father did.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 15:06, Reply)