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> Who did the US bomb before 9/11? Iraq, during the Gulf War. > Who did the US bomb before Pearl Harbor? Japan, though the US didn't bomb them, it instituted
by stavros 7mo ago
> Who did the US bomb before 9/11?
Iraq, during the Gulf War.
> Who did the US bomb before Pearl Harbor?
Japan, though the US didn't bomb them, it instituted an oil embargo and asset freeze.
> Who did the US bomb before its embassies in East Africa were attacked
Iraq, during the Gulf War.
> Who did the US bomb before https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103 ?
Tripoli and Benghazi, Iran Air Flight 655.
I don't understand the purpose of these questions. Were you thinking the US was just minding its own business and some bad guys came and attacked it?
- throw310822 7mo agoThe US are also the major enabler of Israel's colonial expansion and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. This was clearly expressed by Bin Laden himself as one of the motives behind the 9/11 attacks. > Were you thinking the US was just minding its own business and some bad guys came and attacked it As I remember, this was exactly the way the US explained 9/11: "they hate us for our freedom".
- stavros 7mo agoSure, but I'd hope any commenter here would be smart enough to not believe such a facile explanation.
- YZF 7mo ago[flagged]
- throw310822 7mo agoYou asked "who did the US bomb before 9/11" and you got the answer. Now you're arguing that they shouldn't have reacted even if the US bombed them before (calling it "an excuse")? As for the peace process with Palestinians, it was always a sham. The US (as it's evident now to many) are entirely unable to apply any sort of pressure on their "ally". What they've done is just buying time for Israel to expand its colonisation under the temporary pretense of some ongoing "peace process".
- YZF 7mo ago[flagged]
- gazebo2 7mo ago>There is always an excuse "excuse" is a funny way of wording it -- "motivation" or "explanation" might be more appropriate here. is the expectation that the US can and should be able to kill and destroy and the victims just turn the other cheek?
- megous 7mo agoWest bank and Gaza were never under full Palestinian control since 1967 both were under brutal occupation or blockade + contant Israeli meddling into internal affairs.
- YZF 7mo ago[flagged]
- some_random 7mo agoYeah, he also justified it by citing the US's acceptance of homosexuality so maybe it's more complicated than that.
- throw310822 7mo agoNo, he didn't. His "letter to America" starts with the question: "As for the first question: Why are we fighting and opposing you? The answer is very simple: Because you attacked us and continue to attack us." And proceeds to list all the ways the US are militarily attacking and oppressing Muslims in the Middle East. It's a long list. Homosexuality is mentioned only once in the letter, in the next section, where he criticises American society and morals in general and calls it to embrace Islam. This is explicitly an exhortation and not part of the reasons for the attacks (so probably intended as a diagnosis of the symptoms of a moral disease and the proposal of a cure - note that I'm not endorsing it, just explaining its function in the letter).
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- some_random 7mo ago[flagged]
- throw310822 7mo agoNo, there is no "or else", you are plainly making it up. As I've said, this is the exhortation part of the letter and it's not listed among the reasons for the attacks. Regressive, certainly. Brought as a justification for terrorism, no.
- some_random 7mo agoHe orchestrated a terror attack that killed almost three thousand people, that is the "or else".
- xdennis 7mo ago[flagged]
- paulryanrogers 7mo agoSo are the Palestinians?
- fortran77 7mo ago[flagged]