The motive for terrorism that officials dare not acknowledge

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Gareth Porter at FPIF:

In the commentary on the tenth anniversary of 9/11, the news and infotainment media have predictably framed the discussion by the question of how successful the CIA and the military have been in destroying al-Qaeda. Absent from the torrent of opinion and analysis was any mention of how the U.S. military occupation of Muslim lands and wars that continue to kill Muslim civilians fuel jihadist sentiment that will keep the threat of terrorism high for many years to come.

The failure to have that discussion is not an accident. In December 2007, at a conference in Washington, D.C. on al-Qaeda, former State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism Daniel Benjamin offered a laundry list of things the United States could do to reduce the threat from al-Qaeda. But he said nothing about the most important thing to be done: pledging to the Islamic world that the United States would pull its military forces out of Afghanistan and Iraq and end its warfare against those in Islamic countries resisting U.S. military presence.

During the coffee break, I asked him whether that item shouldn't have been on his list. "You're right," he answered. And then he added, "But we can't do that."

"Why not," I asked.

"Because," he said, "we would have to tell the families of the soldiers who have died in those wars that their loved ones died in vain."

His explanation was obviously bogus. But in agreeing that America's continuing wars actually increase the risk of terrorism against the United States, Benjamin was merely reflecting the conclusions that the intelligence and counter-terrorism communities had already reached.

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1. This is the most important issue from 9-11

Many people in and out of our government have their own agenda.

Members of our government certainly don't want to talk about it. That would put the blame on them, and they would have to change their terrible behavior.

Here, President Clinton's Secretary of State Madeleine Albright defends mass-murder of Iraqi children (500,000 Children dead): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4PgpbQfxgo
This alone is one of the World's worst crimes in my lifetime. Arabs are very familiar with this interview.

For over a decade, beginning after the First Gulf War, the US bombed Iraq thousands of times from bases in Saudi Arabia. And this was before the Second Gulf War. What the US has done to Iraq over the last two decades is one of the World's worst crimes since WWII.

And more than anything, our support for the brutal, racist Apartheid state of Israel creates hatred of the US. Without financing, arming, and giving political cover, Israel would have to behave itself. But our corrupt politicians care more about special interests:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?playnext=1&index=0&feature=PlayList&v=J1bm2GPoFfg&list=PLF81BB573C9C0C7B2

The Truther stuff is distracting sideshow.