[wnight]

> "caused muslims to hate us"

Well, that's a few simultaneous fallacies.

But, yes, your policies led to the 9/11 attackers deciding to attack you. Is this not blisteringly obvious?

> and that therefor we should change them???????????

Oh gosh no, change? Not mid-stream.

[Tangaroa]

> But, yes, your policies led to the 9/11 attackers deciding to attack you. Is this not blisteringly obvious?

In exactly the same way that wearing miniskirts leads to rape. Take for example UBL's main grievance: the presence of the international Desert Shield force, or as UBL put it, allowing infidels to live in the land of the two holy cities. That force was there at the request of King Saud of Arabia. So what makes this agreement between King Saud and 30+ other powers a valid cause for the King's subjects, or anybody else, to wage war against the US? What makes Usama bin Laden the superior authority to say who is allowed to live in Arabia? What justifies forbidding people from holding any other religious belief than the approved one? What makes Usama bin Laden the sole authority on religious matters in Arabia who can decide what religion people are allowed to believe?

[Ygg2]

Ehm, didn't USA support Israel which was/is very hostile towards Muslims living on its territory (Gaza Strip)? So it's not like their politics weren't giving Al-Queda a reason to be provoked.

To use your metaphor, it's a lot like wearing a miniskirt and flashing the perpetrator. Neither side is really 100% clean in this.