I know this isn't going to be popular with GWB fans, but I happen to agree with Wright's comments below, and I'd bet that so would millions, if not billions, of others around the world would too:
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A sermon from Wright shortly after the September 11, 2001, terrorism attacks is also under scrutiny. In it he said America had brought on the attacks with its own practice of terrorism.
"We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye," he said. "We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant. Because the stuff we have done overseas has now brought right back into our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost."
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What happened on 9/11 was terrible for all those innocents who were killed, an unimaginable and undeserved tragedy. But American foreign policy over a period of decades was surely a contributory factor to the twin towers becoming a target: unqualified support for Israeli aggression, the support of right-wing dictatorships and oppressive regimes across South America, in the Middle East and south-east Asia, the undermining/removal of democratically elected leftist governments everywhere, the carpet-bombing of Laos and Cambodia...
What gave the American governments throughout the three or four preceding decades the idea that these kind of foreign policy fuckups would never have
consequences?