[Borodog]

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There seem to be a lot of people in this forum who believe that if we just leave the Muslim world alone they'll stop attacking us.

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What we actually believe

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Who is "we"?

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The people who want to stop aggressing on the Muslim world.

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The day after 9/11/01, 90% of the world was behind the U.S. Iranian leaders were the first to publicly denounce the attack and offer any support they could. The people marched in the streets of Iran in support of the U.S.A.

Bush blundered away a perfect opportunity to unite the world.

Now we are hated more than ever in our history.

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This was not a blunder. This was design.

Joseph Schumpeter, writing of Rome:

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Here is the classic example of that kind of insincerity in both foreign and domestic affairs which permeates not only avowed motives but also probably the conscious motives of the actors themselves—of that policy which pretends to aspire to peace but unerringly generates war, the policy of continual preparation for war, the policy of meddlesome interventionism.
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There was no corner of the known world where some interest was not alleged to be in danger or under actual attack. If the interests were not Roman, they were those of Rome’s allies; and if Rome had no allies, then allies would be invented. When it was utterly impossible to contrive such an interest—why, then it was the national honor that had been insulted.
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The fight was always invested with an aura of legality. Rome was always being attacked by evil-minded neighbors, always fighting for a breathing space. The whole world was pervaded by a host of enemies, and it was manifestly Rome’s duty to guard against their indubitably aggressive designs. They were enemies who only waited to fall on the Roman people.

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