They knew, as they did before 9/11, that the American people were generally peaceful and generous The American people strike me as incredibly schizophrenic ove

They knew, as they did before 9/11, that the American people were generally peaceful and generous The American people strike me as incredibly schizophrenic overall because half seem to be, as you say, generally peaceful and generous, whereas as the other half seem dangerously self-serving and gung-ho aggressive in their views of the rest of the world, the poor, women, foreigners, science etc. It's this half that tends to support the US governments destructive foreign policies.