George Ades:
I cannot help but smile with some "neophytes" who, after spending a lifetime in complete ignorance of world affairs, stumble across a piece of the puzzle and think they have found the "Holy Grail" and the reason for all the world's ills.
The history of US military interventions does not begin with the relatively recent events of 9/11. The US has been in the business of regime change, invasions, meddling in other countries' domestic affairs, occupations, assassinations of world leaders, sanctioning of countries and generally throwing their military and economic weight around, establishing of military bases across the world and more, long before the Korean War.
The sudden realisation by some that not everything they had believed about their country is True, has come as a shock and many have sought to find justification for the criminal behaviour of the US. "It can't be us, we are good people, someone else must be responsible."
American boys and girls flying American planes, dropping American bombs and killing millions of people, on the orders of American presidents elected by American voters, while being cheered and thanked for their service and patriotism by good folk back home and all the while the American Military Industrial Complex and the American oil industry are raking in the profits from these war crimes, cannot be justified with the childish "it's not me, it was he who did it."
There is no alibi and certainly no absolution for US crimes. The handprint of America cannot be erased from the misery that country has been causing and continues to cause through all the world's continents, not just in the Middle East, that just happens to fit into the theory provided by this small "piece of the puzzle" that these people consider "panacea."