Burnie, you actually wish death upon people for practicing free speach in what is supposed to be the most freedom-loving country in the world? I think maybe you'd be happier in a dictatorship where they do kill people for having dissenting opinions.

Now on the subject of the people who attacked the US on 9/11, they were mostly from Saudi Arabia, where the US military does have bases, and where the US does indeed support a fairly brutal dictatorship. In fact, the US military presence in Saudi Arabia was given by Osama himself as one of the reasons for attacking the US.

And on the subject of Afghanistan, yes, the US did drop the ball in that country. They (we) used the Afgans as our proxy fighters against the Soviet Union, and the country was fairly well destroyed in the process. Then when we didn't need them any more, we just left them to rot, and didn't provide them with any assistance at all in getting their country rebuilt. The Taliban arose in the power vacuum that was left after we abandoned the Afghan people, and they provided the Afghans with the only stability they had for a while there. And for a while, the US even supported the Taliban because of that.

What was needed in Afghanistan in order to prevent the rise to power of a group like the Taliban would have been monetary assistance for the purpose of rebuilding the Afghan infrastructure. But the US didn't really want an independent Afghanistan that could make its own decisions, because the US wanted to use Afghanistan for an important oil pipeline, so the US allowed Afghanistan to fall ever deeper into chaos until the Taliban arose, and Osama Bin Laden with it. Remember, Osama was trained by the CIA. The US created Osama Bin Laden as well as the Taliban through its direct actions as well as it's criminal neglect of its allies.

You are a very ignorant and hateful person, Burnie.