could the connections be more obvious?

al qaeda didn’t exist before the first iraq war, in fact their stated history starts with outrage over the first iraq war, then why are we surprised that terrorism would not increase after our most recent actions in iraq? Dave Lindorff says it well:

And when a country opts to attack civilian targets as a policy, as our government has done, it must expect the same in return. I’m not saying this is moral or justified. I’m only stating the reality.

many people apparently think terrorism is completely and totally unconnected with our actions in the middle east over the last fifty years, or that our actions were justified and their reaction unwarranted. the first iraq war we even tried to pin on the hegemony of one man, all the while forgetting that we ‘made’ that man and armed him to begin with. and we did that to continue the struggle known as the cold war, and it goes on and on in “us” versus “them” stupidity. the causes and conditions interconnecting and showing us the more we look that everything we do matters. trying to dismiss and label people as extremists or muslims or anything else is inherently ignoring the part we play and continue to play in the suffering of the people there, in what makes them so hateful and violent.

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