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Wasn't 9/11 retaliation born from a coup or something to do with assad?
Afghanistan. The CIA created instability within the country arming fundamentalists that caused a nasty civil war. The point was to bait the Soviets into a quagmire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War
Not enough people consider the world stage when they think about their microcosms!
Afghanistan, Palestine, US bases in Arab lands and cruel and crippling sanctions against Iraq:
https://www.newsweek.com/osama-bin-laden-911-letter-transcript-12427271
If you strip out the religious speech from the declaration their reasons for doing this are pretty "rational". The religion is mostly the ideological bond between different peoples. Besides some very problematic religious repression.
The larger strategy was pretty clear, draw the US into unsustainable wars that shorten their "unipolar moment" of being the only global superpower.
westure culture is built on a fake foundation that requires constant patching, manipulation, and war to keep functional. It's an insane concept. Instead of living with the universe and nature, we actively created our own system that nature and the universe is constantly breaking down. We live against the grain of universal growth.
Native cultures warned us, Islam warns us (not western Islam), nature warns us...
You mean they didn't "hate us for our freedoms" like the Dubya administration kept telling us?
I wonder how many people who actually thought about that line for half a minute still thought it was accurate.
I mean they do hate the "obscenities" in the west which I guess they mean gays and whatnot. But so do the christofascists that were hiding behind Bush. And it's not what really drives them, it's like just one paragraph. They wouldn't actually go to war for something like this.
At the time, they made a big hullabaloo about the U.S. stationing troops in Saudi Arabia, the country of the holiest sites, during and after desert shield/storm.
I honestly don’t know what is a sincerely held belief and what is pretextual.