| > Latin American countries aren't producing terrorist sleeper cells Once again, the US isn't doing the same thing to LA as it is in the ME; when it was, LA produced anti-US terrorists, but the manifestation was difference because of the Cold War context, which both supported such terrorists and imposed constraints on them as condition of the support. > You don't hear about suicide bombings in Venezuela or Cuba or the many other countries the US has meddled in. The US meddling in those countries failed, though, and suicide bombings aren't the only terrorist tactic. Anti-US terrorist attacks we're not unheard of in LA when the US was successful in imposing unpopular dictators. (There's no real modern parallel in LA to the occupation of Iraq, or the US role in Israel-Palestine.) > There are many former French colonies and you don't hear about these colonies producing homegrown terrorists to attack France. Yes, places that France is not currently imposing an unpopular regime on or seen as currently meddling in a manner hostile too aren't generating the same kind of response current and ongoing US action in the Middle East provokes. > We shouldn't confuse correlation with causation. But that's exactly what you are doing with Islam, while steadfastly ignoring other factors. |