> I get the feeling that if the current excuse was removed, another would take its' place.
There's only ever been one reason - US foreign policy that favors one
terrorist over another: The Shah over the clerics; Iraq over Iranian
clerics, Saudi Arabia over Iraq, Israel over Palestine.
The problem started with implicit US support of the jewish terrorist
organization, The Irgun. After WWII, Britian was put in charge of
Palestine who had supported the Axis during the war. The Jews,
however, thought that the region was due to them and began a terrorist
campaign against the British to get it.
After numerous attacks and disruptions the Irgun had their coup. They
hijacked a milk truck, killed it's Palestinian driver, filled it full
of explosives and detonated it in a hotel many British soldiers were
bunked at.
The blast killed about 30 British soldiers and 70 others. Britain
prompted pulled out of the region leaving the Irgun with the country.
The Irgun's leader, Menahem Begin, eventually became the Prime
Minister of Israel.
To Arabs the lesson was, if you conduct a terrorist campaign against
the occupiers they'll pull out and you'll get the country. This has
been the policy, on the whole, that Arabs have pursued ever since.
This began to change in the mid-ninties with President Clinton who
negotiated for peace in both Palestine and Northern Ireland. The Arab
view of the US began to grow favorable and spiked when al Qaeda
attacked the US.
The unilateral dismissal of the UN and invasion of Iraq, however, has
probably pitted an entire generation of Arabs against us.
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