Some quotes:
In 2000, for example – a year before 9/11 – the Mises Institute's Jon Basil Utley was predicting that the United States' disregard of international law was fueling a potential terrorist backlash. And the year before that, our own Lew Rockwell observed that thanks to its "foreign policy, imperial military reach, and global arrogance, the U.S. government is the most hated in the world," so it's "not surprising" that terrorists might "blame us for the actions of the government."And even from Pat Buchanan
On the right, Pat Buchanan was asking in 1999:
With the Cold War over, why invite terrorist attacks on our citizens and country, ultimately with biological, chemical or nuclear weapons? … [B]attling terrorism must go beyond discovering and disrupting it before it happens and deterring it with retaliation. We need to remove the motivation for it by extricating the United States from ethnic, religious and historical quarrels that are not ours and which we cannot resolve with any finality.
Posts
