Greenwald and the cause of terror

You would expect a person who writes a respected daily post on politics to be able to analyze simple facts with decent success. Well after the statement by Faisal Shahzad, the Time Square bomber, that he "If the United States does not get out of Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries controlled by Muslims, he said, 'we will be attacking U.S.,' " Greenwald concludes that we do know what instigates terror. Namely, it's the US being in Muslim countries as Shahzad has said.

Well, on 9/11 the US wasn't in Iraq nor Afghanistan. Furthermore, several years earlier Clinton supported the Muslims of Kosovo, who to this day remember him fondly, and the US helped liberate Afghanistan from the Russian occupation. 9/11 still happened.

Greenwald's argument ignores reality, facts and logic. Yet, he is not alone in this unhelpful analysis. Some resort to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict as the original sin. Even that argument falls by the wayside when you recall that Robert Kennedy was murdered by a Muslim even before the US supported Israel openly. (In the 67 war Israel didn't American weapon; they had only French products).

Too bad.