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It wasn't us -- it had nothing to do with us -- it was them
9.11.07
All those who still insist that somehow we had 9/11 coming to us due to our foreign policy ought to take a clear view of what's happened in the world since then, as is done in "Seeking Terror’s Causes, Europe Looks Within," an article in today's New York Times.
In sum, the article points out that France and Germany, two of Western Europe's most outspoken opponents of U.S. policy in Iraq and the Middle East, have suffered the most devastating hits or potential terrorist hits since 9/11. It's easy to see without looking too far that what the Islamic terrorists are after is not some tit-for-tat, but rather their age-old goal: that of establishing a Caliphate over the known world.
Anyone who thinks a change in our national policy that amounts to anything less than agreeing to Osama Bin Laden's latest call for us all to mass convert to Wahabi Islam and submit ourselves to Sharia law and the will of the Caliphate is at best a fool and at worst a fellow traveler with those who would destroy our civilization not because of anything we do, but because of who we are.
By JANE PERLEZ
Published in the New York Times: September 11, 2007
LONDON, Sept. 10 — Since the terror attacks on the United States on Sept. 11 six years ago, Europe has faced far more new attacks and reported plots than the United States.
Train bombings in Madrid three years ago killed 191 people, the London transit attack two years ago killed 52 commuters, and a string of plots have been discovered and foiled. Then last week, arrests were made in Germany in a plot that the police said could have caused even worse carnage than in Madrid or London.
In response, Europeans for the most part are looking inward to explain why Islamist extremists have made the Continent a favored target, while the United States has been spared — despite its position of world leadership and the anger it has stirred waging wars in two Muslim countries.
In that setting, questions about how minority populations of Muslims are integrated into the mainstream are coming to the fore, along with basic questions about Islam itself. Less attention is being focused on finger-pointing at the United States, analysts say.
German newspapers reporting on the arrests last week of three men — two German citizens who converted to Islam and a Turkish resident of Germany — did not mention the Bush administration. Instead, they focused on the debate about tougher security measures, and on Islam itself. An editorial in Bild on Friday said: “There are no easy answers. But the 1.4 billion or so Muslims owe it to the rest of the world to at least try to give answers and find a remedy. A religion with bloody margins does not belong in a world which wants to and must move closer together.”
France and Germany both opposed the war in Iraq, and both countries have been targets of terrorist plots by Islamist extremists, noted François Heisbourg, a French expert on terrorism and a special adviser to the Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris.
“Bush is incredibly reviled in Germany, and Iraq is viewed as a total disaster, which it is,” he said. “But it doesn’t lead people to say we have terror because of Bush. Why? Because these guys strike a country that is against the Iraq policy.”
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