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Originally Posted by BOfH
Maybe so, but their culture, ideologies and what they cling to as the absolute truth isn't gonna change. To put it in starker terms: If America was completely isolationist, if we didn't believe in spreading democracy, liberating the oppressed, supporting Israel etc. 9/11 still would have happened, may 50 years later or so, but it still would have, 9/11/1683 should ring a bell. So we might be guilty of accelerating that resentment, and sometimes rightly so, but to consistently apologize for our foreign(and domestic) policy, our culture and our way of life, no matter how far off course our moral compass may be at times, is indefensible. My .002, YMMV
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No one's apologizing for our way of life or policies, we do what we do because we are America. At the end of WW2 we rebuilt Germany, as well as France, Belgium, Italy, etc etc *I dont know about Northern Africa* even in Afghanistan today we do this. What sort of resentment would have showed up in post-ww2 Germany if we had not done so and what would it have led to? Not comparing Germany to Afghanistan but I think the same idea applies.