"...it is unreasonable, even utopian, not to expect..."

"...it is unreasonable, even utopian, not to expect people to grow resentful, and desirous of revenge, when your government bombs them, supports police states in their countries, and imposes murderous sanctions on them.  That revenge, in its various forms, is what our CIA calls blowback- the unintended consequences of military intervention.

Obviously the onus of blame rests with those who perpetrate acts of terror, regardless of their motivation.  The question Scheuer and I are asking is not who is morally responsible for terrorism- only a fool would place the moral responsibility for terrorism on anyone other than the terrorists themselves.  The question we are asking is less doltish and more serious: given that a hyper-interventionist foreign policy is very likely to lead to this kind of blowback, are we still sure we want such a foreign policy? It is really worth it to us? The main focus of our criticism, in other words, is that our government's foreign policy has put the American people in greater danger and made us more vulnerable to attack than we would otherwise have been."  -Page 16 of The Revolution, A Manifesto