Reply #171: You're newer to the grudge match than al Qaeda is

[primavera]

You keep pointing to pre-Iraq war acts of terrorism by al Qaeda as evidence that they aren't responding to US aggression, but instead are motivated by... um, what again was their motivation according to you? Oh yes, they're evil and hate us for our freedoms. Right, well, whatever. What you're missing here is that, from al Qaeda's point of view, the American invasion of Iraq is but the latest in a long-standing history of what they righty or wrongly perceive as anti-Arab, anti-Islam foreign policies. For al Qaeda, the grudge match didn't start with Iraq; rather it's been going on for decades and today's events are just a continuation of that same struggle.