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Originally Posted by CodeR70
We were talking about "after 9/11" right? But we can go even further, some actually think that the US (and allies) in Iraq or Afghanistan (or whatever) are considered to be terrorists? Anyway you wanna go with that is fine by me dude. Fact remains, the US does not have a monopoly on this. 9/11 was no the last terrorist attack as it was mentioned by the OP I was reacting on.
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Well he said they haven't attacked "us", which I took to mean the USA, which they haven't. Anyway, not only are you correct to say other countries suffer from terrorism, and for decades before 9/11, they also respond to it in a more mature and proper way than the USA does.
They do not (with the exception of the other major rogue state in the world, Israel), start invading or bombing countries, or killing more innocent people, but they treat the terrorist acts as the crimes they are. They investigate the crime and find and prosecute those responsible in a legal way, and jail them.
You could put the USA's response to 9/11 down to a gun-crazy, cowboy-like immaturity, but it was really just about re-asserting control over the planet, and particularly the oil rich areas of the world, as laid out in the Neo-Con blueprint written one year before 9/11 that infamously pined for a "new Pearl Harbor". Pearl Harbor being the last time the US Government allowed/facilitated an attack on the USA, as pretext for joining a war that would make it the dominant power on the planet.
And now over 150 countries, according the Department of Defense, have US forces stationed on their soil, as part of the post WWII doctrine that the world belongs to the US.