""As for: "Ditto for nations. There would be no reason for terrorist attacks if we minded our own potato patch, and left theirs alone."

The Al-Qaeda attack of 1993 was prompted by what instance where the US was trampling about in Al-Qaeda's potato patch (as if they ever had one to begin with)?""

Bad choice Teribus!

That question was answered for me by the planner of the attack.

Yousef mailed letters to various New York newspapers just before the attack, in which he claimed he belonged to 'Liberation Army, Fifth Battalion'. These letters made three demands: an end to all US aid to Israel, an end to US diplomatic relations with Israel, and a demand for a pledge by the United States to end interference "with any of the Middle East countries' interior affairs." He stated that the attack on the World Trade Center would be merely the first of such attacks if his demands were not met. In his letters Yousef admitted that the World Trade Center bombing was an act of terrorism, but that this was justified because "the terrorism that Israel practices (which America supports) must be faced with a similar one."

No mention of Al-Qaeda there, either.

Seems that you need a little more diligence in researching your responses, mate.

Don T.