What is the root cause of terrorism against the U.S.?

they are the root of the problem.

The question itself is quite amusing in a sick sorta way. WHAT TERRORISM against the U.S.??? From a distance it would appear that before and after the BIG SHOW in Manhattan, the U.S. gub'mint has been terrorizing the entire planet. That INCLUDES y'all... :shrug:

Now they scramble to re-fix things and cover it all with a big fat myth.

are tired of having naught. :grr:

1) American treats Israel like a 51st state and is not objective about the treatment of Palestinians.
2) We hinder democracy in nations like Egypt and Saudi Arabia by backing authoritarian despots.
3) As in Iran, we backed a murderous despot, then reacted negatively when he was overthrown by something much worse.

You just said the same things she did.
She emphasized that these people want freedom badly and we have let them down, repeatedly, since WWII.

Not only the source of trouble Middle East, but the whole world. Nothing but "Manifest Destiny", regurgitated. Other nations consider it little more than a plan for world domination by the U.S.

All those products made in the USA? That was their idea, but they never thought to get a patent! They need to call Invent-Tech.

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Sorry, I know you meant this as a serious thread, but it just sorta hit me...

It's that fact that so many people in our country want to kill every single non-xtian alive today. Why shouldn't they hate the US when so many people in power in our country want to kill them?

the a couple of world wars, then there were the Seven Sisters, Israel and finally the cold war.

That's enough drama to make any nation messed up.

However, the Middle East has been the main place for nations to pursue their interests in. England was the first major player. The soviets also played a major role.

(I say this as a Canadian)

minimally educated young men, with no hope for the future, being whipped into hateful frenzies by too many cultural years of suppression combined with criminal fundamentalist brainwashing.
Unfortunately, criminals are able to hide under the cloak of some organized Islam just as they do under some Christianity and Judaism.

They've done so much to PO people that we never hear of.

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moderate opposition imposable and imperialism.

This includes supporting dictators, overthrowing democratic governments, and bombing entire swaths of countryside back into the Stone Age.

In no particular order:
Bigotry
Ethnocentrism
Religious fanaticism
Corrupt business dealings
Arrogance

in Saudi Arabia on the holiest of grounds & the knowledge of PNAC. OBL didn't like this one bit.

I will even go out on a ledge and say that if Al Gore were president, there would not hv been an attack. I think OBL et al, would hv warned him to get the US bases out of Saudi Arabia. Gore wld hv done it too. Flame away.

...they hate us for our freedoms. Everybody knows that, don't they?

France, Scandavia....? Puzzling, isn't it?

is a major factor.

I think support for brutal regimes is WRONG, but I don't think most of the people oppressed by brutal regimes are planning and executing acts of terror against the United States. They are mostly just trying to not get killed, and to get enough food and water.

The Arab community - other than the Palestinians - is not in this situation. They have both financial resources and religious fanaticism that enable them to plot against the United States. And their primary motive is our support of Israel in the illegal occupation of Palestine. (Or at least that WAS the primary motive before Bush invaded Iraq and slaughered thousands of children with 'collateral damage'. Those photos did not enhance our image in the Islamic countries)

Saddam was accused of having WMD and was allegedly in violation of some UN resolutions for as long as 11 years. Israel definitely has WMD, and has been in violation of scores of UN resolutions for nearly 50 years.

List of UN Security Council Resolutions which Israel has Violated and/or Continues to Violate
http://www.mediamonitors.net/michaelsladah&suleimaniajlouni1.html#israelsdefiedresolutions

They hate the US support of Israel..PERIOD! Most could give a flip about the Palestinians or their efforts for statehood. They use it as an "excuse" to hate the US. IF Israel were to pull out all settlers right now, this minute, and give all the OT to Palestinians and Syria, they would STILL hate Israel! And, they would still hate ANY support the US gave to her.

As for the UN, well, they are a bit biased. How many resolutions were against illegal activities against Arab nations for the wars launched on Israel? ZERO! What about the illegal occupation of Tibet by China? None that I am aware of.

Please check out Myths & Facts Online:The United Nations and search for sources here The UN Security Council.

to the limited extent it is not created by the BFEE to promote their political agenda,

it is due to social injustice.

generally s#!t in their soup. Remarkably, they generally do not engage in terrorist acts against the U.S.

September 11th. and the earlier WTC bombings killed only a tiny fraction of the U.S. citizens killed during that time period by auto accidents. Clearly these deaths are an acceptable cost for the privilidge of driving.

They also represent only a tiny fraction of the deaths of CHILDREN in arab lands directly caused by the U.S. Nonetheless arabs decline to take advantage of our leaky borders and unguarded propane tanker trucks (mobile bombs). The majority of "terrorist" bombings are against uniformed U.S. forces overseas. By traditional laws of combat these are fair and appropriate targets.

Every time W gets on his high horse about terra-rists U.S. currency literally loses value. Congress meanwhile impedes progress on Climate Change and Peak Oil our two greatest threasts. We are paddling towards the waterfall and arguing about whether we are paddling fast enough.

in 1946.

A permanent wartime footing requires wars to sustain it. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. It all starts from that.

1946, and guys like Paul Nitze. Go look it up. Read 'The Wise Men' by Isaacson and 'Way Out There in the Blue' by Fitzgerald, one after the other.

You'll have your answer.

'1984' was written in 1949, after WWII but before Korea. There were plenty of terrifying totalitarian horrors, present and just recently past, to give Orwell his vision. The U.S. had hardly gotten started as a world power; Truman was still President, and the Nitze fellows had barely left the egg they hatched out of.

Totalitarianism, though, follows patterns. I can understand why you'd ask. Have you read it?

Yes I have read it and I am reminded of it very often, especially when reading DU threads.
Orwell had a relatively good idea of what the future would bring, however, I think he failed to understand the power of television which was at the time relatively new. But if we replace Soma in Huxley's "A brave New World" with TV, then we can see how easy it is to control the masses and reduce them to apathy.
As for the quote above it's taken from the Dead Kennedys "California Uber Alles", have you heard it?

empire building and aggresive foriegn wars to protect corporate interests.

broke his campaign promise of 1916 and got us into the European war. Jack Reed said then that the point of the imperialist slaughter was "profits." It's been so ever since for the MIC.

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Terrorism is a tactic employed by small militant groups against large military entities with radically superior might. As successful employment of the tactic is usually suicidal in nature, it is normally used as a last ditch effort, not a primary course of action. The fact that terrorism is employed against a state such as ours says that we have ignored and/or thwarted every previous conventional attempt of the group employing terrorist tactics to settle their dispute through other channels.

The Arab world still thinks of Israel as illegitimate. (And Israel no longer feels like it has to mollify the opinions of the Arab street.)

The USA supports Israel, economically, militarily, and politically in forums like the United Nations.

Contrary to popular opinion, most terrorists are not starving. The real poor are the ones that march in the street throwing rocks, and getting shot by the police-- often the police of their own country. Sometimes somebody from this class will offer himself as a suicide bomber, in which case he will be outfitted by the professionals and assigned a suitable target; these guys are tools of Terrorists 'R Us.

The terrorists who can reach us are from the professional classes. Several of the 9/11 skyjackers were doctors; Bin Laden is a trained engineer. They're motivated by Wahhabism's fucked-up jihad theology, which 90%-plus of Islam rejects, but which has been funded by the House of Saud to distract their own malcontents.

Yeah, it's complicated. And it's ironic that their depredations help empower our Christian "jihadists," a/k/a Crusaders.

With the goals of either defeating communism or obtaining cheap oil. Couple that with the religious fanaticism of the terrorists and there you have it.

Nothing enables a communist revolution quite the way brutal repression by either a monarch or a dictator. In some Muslim countries, it inspires terrorism.

It has created a terrible arrogance on our part, and angered so many nations in so many ways.

Colombians are angry because we destroy their livelihood alongside the cocaine fields. We can't stop doing coke, so they must stop growing it.

Europeans hate our disregard for international laws and treaties. We think that we enforce the law and are therefore above it.

Africans hate us because we treat them as the 'bad' part of town, where the police and money won't go. Just like we treat many African-American neighborhoods here.

Asians hate us because we act as though we know everything. But Confucius is just as valid as Smith.

And the entire world hates us because we force our laws, such as our drug laws, on them.

America is certainly number 1, public enemy number 1.

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That's easy.

'Terrorism' is not cohesive movement, not even a fairly loose coalition like Nazi Germany or the USSR commanded. There's as many answers as particular groups are mentioned.

and all its attendant faults.

I'm talking on both 'sides' here.

evil people pissing off other evil people..who in turn think that they are gonna to get to rape virgins for killing other people.

the have nots of an area, being introduced to and brain washed by any form of religious fundamentalism which teaches to hate the U.S.

Here ya go...

the single reason for terrorism is US corporate greed, usurping government power in form of Bush puppet administration, spread worldwide, and the BLOWBACK from such greed.

simple.

AGAINST THE U.S.???? It's ALL internal! :shrug:

it's corporate plundering run amok, disguised by rampant militarism and diplomatic bullying. Seriously, anyone who believes 'they hate us for our freedoms' has drunk the kool-aid! :)

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