And not one word about the people who are outraged by the US conduct in the Middle East and adjacent areas. Look at the situation through Arab eyes. Not US or NATO eyes.

 For anyone following happenings in that area, they would have seen a continuum of battles between Arabs/Muslims and the US. It started with the US financing the takeover of land in Palestine. What fair minded person would not have been appalled at that action? However Israel was involved and the holocaust was not ancient history. That kept the media diverted.

Then there were retaliation attacks on embassies in Africa. The US continued financing the taking over land in Palestine. Arab response against US navy vessel, a US attack on a factory in Khartoum and caves in Afghanistan. 

So some people  were no doubt recruited into attacks on the US because the US had attacked their friends. 9/11 followed.  And the US response was to attack, in the eyes of any Arab  involved, a defenseless innocent country.   To any Arab.