@izzythepush,
Quote:It's very easy to place all the blame on the terrorists whilst ignoring what the West did to create them in the first place.
Bill is pretty bloody-minded. That's clear. But here, you're also doing something that isn't right. You're shifting blame, or coming close to doing so.
It's morally wrong to do that, and it's illogical as well. If a terrorist can be made innocent by these means, then why not the West? Why does the buck stop there? Once it's rolling down through the ages, why does it have to stop anywhere?
Identify the crime and leave it there. Understanding how it happened is downstream from judgment. We explore that when we're trying to figure out how to address the problem in the long run.
Those of us who choke on words like "wipe them off the face of the earth" especially like looking at how it happened, but we shouldn't let that hold us back from condemnation. That does injustice to the victims.