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Originally posted by downside
I'm not doubting it was a good book. But the topic in which he chose to write about seems loose. The equivalent of the book that you are describing would be something like "Earthquakes: Why I Can't Stop Them". Why publish/read a book containing nothing more than a "why we should be punished" theme. But that's another topic.
Anyone can right a book about why they think these people hate us. The real answer lies, obviously, in their beliefs. I believe, for instance, that a variant of the religion, combined with their economic state and a hint of pure hatred caused the September attack. The most important part, of course, is the hatred. I give no merit to any person, group or Religion that agrees killing humans is acceptable.
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The title of the book
Blowback is a techincal term the CIA employs to name the none too rare phenomenon of them supplying and training some resistance group in a foreign country, that group either serving thier purpose or not, the CIA withdrawing support and losing contact with that group, and finally the group using said training and weapons against American targets. The part that blows my mind is that fact that it happens often enough for there to be a name for it. And as a point of reference we run a nationally sponsored terroist training camp right here in the good old US of A, It used to be called the
School of the Americas but as that name began to carry some rather negative connotations it was changed to Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISC). Whining "Why us?" and the sanctimoniously deciding it must be something
they want, addresses none of the actions that directly lead to terrorism. When they serve our purposes they are called freedom fighters, when they don't they're terrorists. Case in point: We gave the Taliban 40 million dollars just last spring for the eradication of poppy fields that the CIA had orginally started. There needs to be a fundamental shift in how the average american looks at the world and one in the way our leader operate in it. Nothing short of that is going to have any long term results.