Why they hate us? It's not a secret
• Baltimore SunYou'll remember that shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks, President George W. Bush said the motivation of the hijackers was that they hated freedom. Hating freedom seemed then and now to be a pretty weak reason to give up one's own life to inflict dea
I saw this a few months ago and copied it into my gmail for future use... but I forgot to get the source info. These aren't my words, someone else looked all of this stuff up, but it fits nicely.
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The State World LIberty Index (2006) places Estonia, Switzerland and the Bahamas - among others - above the U.S. In other words, these states are even more free then we are.
Reporters Without Borders publishes a Press Freedom Index that also includes Estonia, Switzerland, Finland, Denmark and others at the top of the list. The U.S. is ranked 20th.
Hong Kong and Singapore are among those that top the U.S. in the Heritage Foundation's Index of Economic Freedom.
If the terrorists' motiviation is to attack the free, why haven't they attacked any of these other countries? Surely Switzerland must be on their radar.
Could it be that they don't maintain a military presence all over the world?
Could it be that they don't use drone's to kill dozens - or even hundreds - of innocents when bombing a smaller number of "high-value targets?"
Could it be that they don't prop up repressive regimes throughout the Muslim world?
Could it be that they practice non-interventionist foreign policies?