First there was Al Queda.
Whom we trained and supplied for several years against the Soviets.
Then along came some other haphazard organizations like Hezbollah.

Their number was in the low thousands.

Bush declared three countries an "Axis of Evil" and went into Iraq to rout out ....God only knows.
I think they were experimenting with a philosphy spelled out in the Project of the New American Century and had an opening to produce results with access to our tax dollars and the blood and courage of our young men.

I KNEW it would inflame the Middle East, along with millions of others worldwide. It was a horrific blunder. To top it all off, the man who singlehandedly made that decision is an arrogant born-again Christian with a sense of megalomania and a burning desire to see Armageddon in his lifetime. This is the final solution, using Christianity to rout out the muslims and their religion. He has ended up turning hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of muslims against us in their final judgement to the west, their jihad.

So perhaps, " the worst threats to ourselves and our planet come from our own government and culture". Perhaps they did, because the aftermath of 9/11 could have been handled better. But we ignored the Saudis, who plotted and executed against us, and instead went in the wrong country and painted it with a big brush.

Do you think we deserve the blame now?