Contrary to the imbecile before Obama they do not "hate us for our freedoms".
As this continues our national security lessens.
But why should the powers that be care? Afterall, another shock to the USA populice and the more they can escalate the Military-Corporate-Complex.
ALLAN NAIRN: Well, just—you know, we mentioned before some of the places where the US is bombing and attacking. Less known, these are some examples of the machine being set on kill, repressive—what in RAND’s words—RAND Corporation’s words, repressive regimes being backed by the US:
Algeria, where they annulled an election, they stole an election, they do systematic torture;
Ethiopia, where there’s mass hunger among the population, but where the US is building up the Ethiopian army and using them against Somalia;
Saudi Arabia, the most religious extremist, anti-woman dictatorship in the world;
Jordan, a torture center—the Jordanian intelligence outfit was, in the words of George Tenet, owned by the CIA, and both the CIA and Israel use it for torture;
Rwanda, whose army and paramilitaries have been pillaging and raping and massively killing in the eastern Congo;
Congo itself, Secretary of State Clinton went there and made a good denunciation of rape by the Congolese army, and as that was happening, the US was delivering weapons and training to that same Congolese army;
Indonesia, where the army now de facto occupies and terrorizes Papua and has recently resumed assassinations in Aceh, the other end of the archipelago;
Colombia, where army and army-backed militaries are the world’s number-one killer of labor activists;
Uzbekistan, massive torture backed simultaneously by the US and Russia;
Thailand, where officers who—US officers who I spoke to use their US training in what they call “target selection” to assassinate and disappear Muslim rebels in the south;
Nepal, where US Green Berets for years created old
Guatemala-style civil patrols that carried out lynchings against pro-Maoist forces and civilians in the countryside;
India, where the police do daily torture and where their own officers talk about using terror against villages in the Naxalite rebel areas;
Egypt, one of the world’s leading torture states and Israel’s accomplice in the blockade and hungering of Gaza;
Honduras, where the army recently staged a coup when the oligarchy’s president, Zelaya, turned against his fellow oligarchs;
Israel, which committed aggression against Gaza using US white phosphorus and cluster bombs as the US was—the US was shipping in new materiel as this, you know, attack was underway;
Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, where, as the British Guardian just reported, the security forces are doing systematic torture of Hamas people and other dissidents under CIA sponsorship. And that’s only a partial list. We’d need another twenty-minute segment to complete the list.
But in
not one of these cases has Obama decided to comply with US law, comply with international law, and cut off the killer forces. In fact, in a number of them he has stepped it up. In Indonesia, for example, he’s made a push to renew aid to the Kopassus, the Red Berets, the most deadly of the killer forces, hated by the people, long trained by the US Green Berets.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/6/obama_has_kept_the_machine_set 
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