THE SEEDS OF VIOLENCE: Folks Out There Have a "Distaste of Western Civilization and Cultural Values"

The article leads with this statement:

One of the most durable features of the U.S. culture is the inability or refusal to recognize U.S. crimes.

Herman goes on to debunk the idea that religious fanaticism is at the root of terror. He lists what he perceives as the contributing factors at the root of violence and hatred for the United States. He identifies the US installation of tyrants like the Shah of Iran in 1953, the military backing given to Saddam Hussein during the brutal war waged against the new Islamic Republic of Iran, and the US support for the illegal zionist entity in Palestine.

The statement ends with this relevant observation:

imperial terrorism inevitably produces retail terrorist responses; that the urgent need is the curbing of the causal force, which is the rampaging empire.

The complete posting is archived (right click to open in new tab)
http://web.archive.org/web/20011103060522/globalresearch.ca/articles/HER109A.html

In short, the much disliked yet apt words of brother Malcolm concerning the assassination of President John F. Kennedy remain true today:

a case of chicken coming home to roost

Moreover, apart from seeing their own violence turned on themselves,
Americans are paying the price for:

• their acquiescence of the fraudulent process which ushered in the current US presidency,
• their acquiescence of the assaults on freedoms which were instituted subsequent to Bush's election
• their acquiescence of the obvious deceptions created and then used as pre-texts for the military interventions
  
• their acquiescence of the abuses of the media meant to incite fear, then hatred
  
• their acquiescence of the illegal wars which are being waged today
• their acquiescence of the abuses at secret torture camps including but not exclusive to Guantanamo
  
• their acquiescence of the continued support for the criminal entity occupying Palestine

Sadly, we are all victims of this rampaging empire and we will all pay the price for inaction.

What feeds this process do you think? It defies all logic that so many will be fooled into so much irrational and blind support for a deceptive and a corrupt state. When confronted by reason, some people tend to bury their heads in the soil. Part of the problem of course is as a fellow blogger put it, a nation fed with the doctrine that it is superior to all others, cannot fathom anything other than this perception of themselves. To be exposed to anything other than confirmation of this illusion, becomes something tantamount to suicide. It is a fragile identity. Some would argue it is the mentality of a nation in a state of war, yet I cannot agree that this is a given or even natural state.

In the humble opinion of this blogger, this is more than natural. It is self-serving and it is obstinant. Another blogger noted that the Holy Quran mentions how the enemies of God will never accept the believers, until [the believers] embrace [the non-believers'] religion (identical in the translation to "way of life"). The Holy Bible mentions something similar in the book of Proverbs and elsewhere, I believe. We must in effect show our allegiance to the great satan by our wanton and obstinant embrace of death, violence, destruction, symbols of allegiance, if you will. Refusal to open one's mind to allow rational considerations into our thinking and our actions, is surely sinful at best, and dangerous at worst. For it prevents our God from using us as instruments in His correction of the wrongs of others.