So we look the other way and let them get away with shit. That's the way the game is played, as long as we are stupid enough to allow our prosperity to depend on cheap oil, we need them so we have to kiss their ass, just like they need us because they're scared shitless of the Iranians, and until recently, the Iraqis. If you really want to trace it back to its origins, go back to where the Royal Navy switched from coal to bunker oil and had to go overseas looking for a source.

Ever watch "Reilly, Ace of Spies"? The world has always been a battleground for corporations; countries and ideologies are just excuses to get kids to enlist and old farts to pay taxes.

Actually, you can probably trace it farther back than that. But it doesn't matter who started the fire, its burning now and we have to play the hand we've been dealt. History is a process, not a contest. Sure, you can cherry pick history to make it look like a contest between good and evil, that's what the conservatives love to do whenever their business plan calls for someone elses resources or some new market.

But regardless of who you are, you don't let someone attack your country because maybe, according to them, they might feel they have justification. If that were the case, we'd be killing Anglos and driving them out of the South West so the Mexicans could have it back. And then we'd have to kill the Mexicans so the Indians could have their country back.

I was 6 years old when the CIA coup deposed Mossadegh and had him murdered so we could put our thug in charge, someone who would be friendly to OUR oil companies, not BP or Royal Dutch Shell. But I had absolutely nothing to do with it, honest. I'd be willing to bet no one in the WTC had anything to do with it, either.