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We did bomb ourselves. 9/11 didn't happen with lack of action on our part. In fact it was in response to US actions in the past. No matter how much people want to claim terrorists are just evil American haters, they only hate us because we gave them reason to. Bless the people who died and had no real control over any of the past or present actions.
GT40FIED: Stationing our military in other countries does have an influence upon protecting the people of this country. You cannot completely protect your country through isolationism. It worked many years ago but we live in a global time now, everybody has some influence on everybody else. The only way to fully protect your people is to have some kind of dilluted investment in the global arena. I'm not saying that stationing our forces around the globe is the best solution, but it isn't necessarily the worst either. The success really depends on a wide variety of factors, but we will probably never know how many problems have been avoided by our forces being stationed throughout the globe. Foreign aid is actually one of the more prominent influences that can be a strong part of a good offense, the only problem is that the US government doesn't know how to do anything right when it comes to aid or "good things." That's what happens when you throw politics into everything, even aid isn't very helpful anymore.
I just laugh and want to cry every time I see Bush get up and make some claim about how great democracy is. Most recently he made references to the global war protests claiming that they wouldn't influence him at all by saying that the greatest thing about a democracy is that people can say what they want, but he "respectfully disagrees" with their opinion. Basically what he's saying is that he's got the power whether the PEOPLE want him to use it or not, very democratic of you Mr. Bush.
The UN is a democratic organization that, once again, Mr. Bush has decided to ignore and claim he'll go it alone if he must. That's like Congress claiming that they'll hold a symbollic vote for a matter of "taking a poll" but will pass the resolution whether ANYBODY votes for it or not. That's democracy people.
We don't live in a democracy anymore, we live in a corporatocracy.
Unfortunately the PEOPLE of the US will pay the price for the ill deeds of the FEW who have the power. The people of the US never supported helping Noriega, or bin Laden, or Saddam, it was the few in power in the government who made the decisions for us. And where are we now? They are the very enemies we trained and funded. Next up, Pakistan.
I give it a maximum of 10 years and we'll be fighting with Pakistan in some significant manner (not saying military, necessarily). They're using the current US backing as a shelter for their activities. As if Pakistan is void of large numbers of terrorists. I wouldn't be surprised if some of them were state sponsored.
Blowback.
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