Right, Bobert. It's not Obama or his speech (which contained a lot of typical, very predictable rhetoric) that I am concerned about...it's the general ongoing foreign and domestic policy of the USA I am concerned about...a policy that is based on intervening in, attacking, and politically dominating foreign countries, and the fact that they would rather obsess about the minutiae of American domestic "security" issues than question the utter wrongness of their own imperial overseas doctrine...which is the direct cause of all their security issues.

Muslim jihadists are not attacking the USA because they are "hateful" people bent upon destruction of our way of life. They are attacking the USA because they are desperately angry and bitter people who have seen their own societies terribly damaged by American imperial policy for the last 60 years, who feel helpless and enraged in the face of an aggressor superpower, who have suffered under American-backed dictatorial regimes for decades, and who have lost tremendously more innocent lives amongst their own people as a result of war and repression than Americans or Israelis have lost as a result of terrorist counterstrikes during the same period. They know perfectly well from their own direct experience that imperial America does not "stand with those who seek justice and progress" (as Obama put it). America stands for its own big business and geopolitical interests, period, and it will go to war on other people's land to secure those interests.

Now, of course, the vast majority of individual Americans DO seek justice and progress...virtually all ordinary people everywhere seek justice and progress. It's just that their government's imperial policy does not seek justice and progress. It seeks material gain and absolute control of the means of material gain...and that has nothing to do with justice and precious little to do with genuine progress.

Virtually all individual Muslims ALSO seek justice and progress. They are not getting either justice or progress from the policymakers of the USA. They are getting violence on a grand scale.

They have lost most likely 1,000 or more civilians for every American civilian who has died in that violence in the past few decades. Perhaps many thousands for every one American. Why be surprised that they get angry and strike back? They feel the same way about losing their friends and relatives and their national sovereignty as we would, were we in their position.

Obama cannot speak openly or honestly about that, not even if he wanted to. He'd be accused of being "soft on Terrorism". He'd be accused of being a "defeatist" or even a "traitor". So he must go on mouthing the usual platitudes and fussing about the symptoms while ignoring the fact that it is his government's own aggressive foreign policy that is causing the illness.