When considering the situation in the Middle East, namely the “War on Terror”,
which somehow involves the U.S.A. conquering and occupying countries
with oil and those nearby, it is helpful to take a step back, and apply
some role-reversal.

The U.S.A. invades and occupies Middle Eastern countries for the oil,
but I assume that, theoretically, if Muslims were invading and occupying
other countries, it would be for the purpose of carrying out their jihad
against the infidels, enslaving and/or killing Christians and Jews.

Of course, it could very well be for the purpose of acquiring food and
other resources that they don’t have a lot of, but this is less likely,
since often, the heads of terrorist groups who organize jihad, live well,
even though those under them are in poverty.

For the sake of argument, instead of discussing what would happen if
a Muslim nation invaded and occupied the United States, let us consider
what the opinion of the U.S. populace would be if a Muslim state invaded
Canada, England, or some other country that we are friendly with, and
whose people are mostly white and mostly Christian or Jewish.

If occupied by Middle Eastern Muslims, and unable to repel their invaders
through conventional military methods, their desperate citizens became
suicide bombers, would the U.S.A. condemn them as terrorists, or would
we sympathize with them as freedom fighters?

Would it make a difference, in terms of morality, if instead of blowing
themselves up to kill the enemy in their own country, they took the fight
to the home country of their invaders/occupiers?

Would they distinguish between suicide attacks on government and
military installations VS civilians?

Would we support them even if they didn’t?

If we did, would it be because the people being blown up are of a
different race and religion than most of our country?

The reason that I pose these questions is this:

For decades, more developed countries have abused the Middle East. The
U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. used them in pawns in their Cold War, leaving
them full of land mines that injure and kill men, women, and children.

The funding, arming, and training of these countries, for example,
Afghanistan, and then leaving them without a purpose, after they died
for one side or the other, created an environment primed for terrorism,
much as Germany, when left destroyed after World War I, was open to
the fanaticism of Adolph Hitler, and struck back at the world with WWII.

Later, in the 1990s, when Iraq invaded Kuwait, endangering the flow of
oil to the U.S., the U.S. invaded Iraq, to “free the people of Kuwait”.
The U.S. promised to help remove Saddam Hussein, and then, after
some of the people of Iraq rose up against Saddam, the U.S. backed
out, and left them helpless. Some of them might have become terrorists,
but most were probably tortured in dungeons and killed and dropped
in mass graves, which happened to many under Hussein’s rule. This
meddling without really helping was just another insult and injury by
the U.S. against the people of the region.

For the next decade, the U.S. routinely flew air missions over Iraq,
and although many of them were just for the purpose of observing
to keep an eye on the regime in power and prevent more incursions
into neighboring nations, many others were bombing raids, some of
which killed innocent civilians. Yet another nail in the coffin of U.S.-
Mid East relations.

On 9/11/2001, members of a jihadist network flew two planes into the
World Trade Center, which was full of people, primarily, who deal with
the transfer of money and goods and services between (mostly) developed
countries, and who are thus seen as “evil western devils” by many Muslim
extremists, who see our lifestyles, which are luxurious and entertaining
in comparison to their own, as tempting and sinful.

I am not a psychic, nor am I an expert at Middle Eastern culture, or a
student of the Koran (Quoran), but I think that this was most likely done
for several reasons:

1. to pressure other countries to stop meddling in the Middle East, by
creating a scenario where these governments are putting their own
civilians at risk due to their imperialist aggression

2. to inspire citizens of “civilized” countries to rise up and influence
their countries foreign policies, through protesting and/or voting, to
stop imperialist aggression by their governments

3. to terrorize (scare) civilians, thereby making their luxurious and
entertaining lifestyles less than enjoyable, which not only punishes
them for sinning by giving into temptations, but also, I think, to be
honest, out of jealousy for their freedoms and standard of living

I feel that, if instead of the World Trade Center, the 9/11 hijackers
had attacked the White House and the U.S. Capitol, that would have
been more honorable, although still not a perfect solution, since some
innocents would be harmed, including staff, visitors, and politicians
who don’t support the policies that the extremists are fighting against.

(I know that there was supposedly also an attack on the Pentagon, but
I choose not to acknowledge that accusation, since the few seconds
of supposed footage available show something that looks more the
size of a missile flying a few feet above the ground, and struck an
unoccupied portion of the building that was under construction.)

At least they would have at least been attacking the people who were
more directly responsible for the policies that are hurting them.

From statements in the media by Middle Eastern leaders and Jihadists,
and by the terrorist attacks on American and European civilians, it seems
that the extremists, for the most part, feel that the citizens of these
countries are as guilty of aggression against them as the governments.

They must not realize or care that American and European civilians often
don’t have much more power over their governments than they do over
those in their own countries.

I would guess that a lot of them think that the majority of our country
wants to invade and conquer them, and not just the very vocal “moral”
(HA!) majority of conservatives.

I am sure that many people, including intelligence operatives, will think
and say such thinking and speaking (well, typing) makes me a threat.
This isn’t true. Let me clarify: I am not saying that I want or hope for
suicide bombers or anyone else to attack the US government and/or
military; I am just saying that by attacking them, since they are the
aggressors against the people who blow themselves up, would be
preferable, and more logical, honorable, and effective, than exploding
innocent civilians who may of may not support the USA’s foreign policies.

I, and many others, perhaps even a majority of Americans, are very
angry and frustrated with our government and our political process.

What the people of the Middle East need to understand is this: The
U.S.A. has perhaps the world’s largest, strongest, and most invasive
authoritative force when you take into consideration our government,
military, and law enforcement agencies combined. It would be nearly,
if not completely impossible, for the liberal progressives among us to
act against our laws and take our government by the methods of
revolution that many smaller and less developed nations have had
success with.

Just as their totalitarian dictators keep them in poverty while they
live in oppulence, all the while telling them that America is the great
evil that is the cause of their problems and which they must destroy
to please Allah, our bureaucratic representatives attempt to distract
us from their corruption and our own deteriorating situation with
sensationalistic language and one sided stories of the vicious madmen
who would see us all die, pretending as if the actions of terrorists are
always unprovoked, when in reality they are often reactions to prior
attacks.

In this future, the U.S.A., Europe, and perhaps even Russia and China
and other developed nations, will stop fighting over oil and natural gas
reserves and stop polluting and destroying the planet with the emissions
from those and other dirty energy sources like coal and nuclear, and
instead power the world with clean, safe, renewable, sustainable methods
such as solar, wind, hydrodynamic, geothermal, biomass, and biofuels.

And perhaps, some day, more individuals will even be free, legally, and
capable, financially, to generate 100% of their own energy needs with
clean, renewable sources, as the technologies for harnessing them become
increasingly widespread and affordable.

Maybe, in the future, we will even be able to help the Middle East to
solve their own problems, rather than trying to make them what we need
them to be to suit our needs.