We were not attacked because we are free and democratic, but because we support the Israelis over the Palestinians and because we have used our power consistently and violently to further our economic objectives in the Middle East. Oddly, these elementary facts are known to everyone in the world except Americans. Because it is in the interests of powerful people in this country that we remain in the dark, that we not interfere with our government's support of their business enterprises. Tremendous sums of money are being made, and you and I have a pretty good life too, as a result. When the economy is purring along, greased by cheap oil, everyone benefits.
Oil is incredibly important to our economy.
It fuels cars, heats homes, runs factories. We make plastic, dacron, fertilizer, medicine, all kinds of things out of it. We kill for it, literally. It is impossible to defend against the many possible kinds of attack. We can't kill all of the perpetrators because we can only find a few of them.