Is there any question as to why the rest of the Earth's nations no longer believe in our "good intentions"?


DTS. The intentions were to protect ourselves. I really believe this. The fear after 9/11 was palatable. We forget the mindset at the time. We were scared to death that we would be attacked with biological weapons, airplanes, trains, automobiles. Dont you remember being checked at any event that involved a large number of people. Tiny Retama Park was patting people down. We cannot just look at the situation at the present if we hope to learn. You have to remember the current mood at the time the decisions were made.

I dont really dont believe France, Germany, Russia, China, North Korea care that much about our National Security. We are the big dog. They have their own problems. They dont see us as being a target. Just as they dont see Israel's retaliation when its citizens get rocketed almost everyday from Gaza. Maybe they did not understand the panic in this country since they have experienced years of terrorism (except China). Maybe they thought we overreacted to having two jets slam into two icons of our country killing 3000 people (could have been a lot more) in an instant.