If you don't want their refugees

[Amimnoch]

10. Well those two war criminals

certainly escalated it to a whole new level, but if we're to be totally honest, our interventionism preceded these two by more than a few decades.

From our allies, the British involvement in the Persian oilfields of 1914, to our stationing of troops in Iran in WWII, then our first duplicitous move to get Stalin out of Iran while simultaneously escalating our own military presence (against the will of the Iranian people). Then there was the Eisenhower scandal of 1953 where we intervened in the Iranian election process and deposition of Mosadegh, the popularly elected leader (I think it was Iranian parliament). Then there was the British, Israel, and France attacking Egypt in the mid 1950's. The landing of US troops in Lebanon (Beirut I believe) in the late 50's in an attempt to shore up an unpopular minority Christian government by Ike.

And these are just the early and mid 1900's.. We've covered our hands in middle east blood for a looooong time now. I doubt there's many living who haven't lost somebody close to them over the decades to our interventionist policies.

Here in the US, we get all ticked off when a couple of towers are downed by terrorists.. just imagine how we'd feel if just about every single living citizen had someone that they knew, and was close to taken out by terrorism? This is their reality and their point of view.

I don't write this to knock on America, but people really should understand some REAL history for some context to the "why" of it.