"It’s not McDonalds, Starbucks, lap dances and Brittany Spears – offensive though Muslims may find those hallmarks of American life. And it’s not about converting us to Islam. To the contrary, says Scheuer, what motivates radical Islam is American foreign policy. It’s our support for Israel, our troops on the Arabian Peninsula, our occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, our support for Russia, India and China against their Muslim militants, our pressure on Arab energy producers to keep prices low, and our support for tyrannical Muslim governments."
Michael Scheuer spent 22 years at the CIA, four of them as the head of the Bin Laden desk, and then resigned shortly after publishing Imperial Hubris under the byline of “Anonymous.”
Let me point out that the CIA is not known for their bleeding heart liberalism. They have assasinated almost every progressive political leader who has become a threat since Arbenz in 1954.
Read the entire piece at
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/michael-smerconish/why-do-they-hate-us_4764.html
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