9-11, give me a break.

[abaris]

This "America deserves it because it bombs other countries" narrative is rancid and insensitive to the victims who have nothing to do with America's warfare. It's as vile as people who justify airstrikes on innocents in Syria and Iraq in the hope that it might get an ISIS member among the innocent. It's the exact same thing.

Of course it was a vile act and thousands of innocents losts their lives. But I remember the original coverage where some argued that it had absolutely nothing to do with America's policy. The most stupid arguments I heard was the they hate us because we are free one.

That was always my major gripe. The victims being instrumentalised to brush the motifs of the attacks under a big flag carpet. It's always the most stupid approach to not ask why this has happened, since understanding your enemy is the first step to defeating them. In that department America's policy, not America in itself to make that distinction, has been severly lacking. The narrative has been made to suit the propaganda machine running on overdrive at the time.