A terrorist incident of mass destruction, patriots had warned, would be the inevitable and logical result of a fatally shortsighted U.S. foreign policy. American support of tyrannical regimes in the Middle East, an unquestioning alliance with the international outlaw state of Israel, and reckless military interventionism around the globe, set the stage for an explosive reaction. Israel Is a Very Costly Ally and America's blind support of Israel's gross violations of human rights and international law will not only cost billions of tax dollars but eventually American lives as well. Support of Israel's aggression and cruel treatment of the Palestinians is alienating not only the Arab world but the entire Muslim world. This hatred will eventually be expressed in the form of terrorism directed at Americans and at American interests.
Terrorism is the poor man's way of waging war.
They described with amazing accuracy a devastating explosion taking place in a major American city in which many thousands would be killed. Intense speculation focuses on a group associated with the financier of terror Osama Bin Laden. The missile defense system America is completing has proven to be a Maginot Line. The enemy has gone around it. The United States desperately needs a 'bottom-up' review of all its commitments to determine which remain vital to our security and which we must let go in order to stay out of future wars that are not our wars.