Is U.S. to blame for global terrorism problem?

 Global terrorism is up 25%, research suggests U.S. policy is to blame

The total number of terrorist attacks was up more than 25 percent from the previous year, according to the State Department’s annual report on global terrorism. Incidents in Iraq accounted for nearly half of the 14,000 attacks and about two-thirds of the more than 20,000 fatalities worldwide.

CNN news: global terrorism problem, statistics included

Cold, hard truth: Iraq, terrorism, U.S. and White House policy

Its hardly surprising that people consider the United States as the source of an increasing global terrorism problem.  As Americans we’ve become accustomed to meddling in the affairs of anyone who’s thinking isn’t in line with our own.  If you’re not Catholic,  you’re going to hell, if you’re not a Christian, you’re going to hell, don’t support the Iraq War, you’re unAmerican, its always something.

A hateful,  intolerant country, provocative bully, victim of our own logic

As a country, we need to get out of the habit of meddling in the affairs of others and just separating ourselves from the world.  Aside from diplomacy to boost our economy and market needs, there is no reason to constantly berate brown people for what they believe, think, or understand as a way of life.  If they threaten us, fine.. kill them all.  Fox news, trigger-happy conservatives, and anyone who can’t play nice should just keep their mouths shut and stick with their own kind… its what they do anyway!

Terrorist, unAmerican, Blasphemy!

Before any NRA  loving, bible throwing, nutjobs start calling me unpatriotic, blasphemous and unAmerican, I don’t condone the hateful attacks and murders of thousands of Americans by the evil terrorists.  What they did was wrong, what we are doing is also wrong, but two wrongs won’t make a right (no pun intended) and I’ll call the United States government out if it deserves calling out.   The worst part of it all is I have to write idiotic paragraphs like this to derail the rise of morons that we’ve seen as a result of the “you’re with me or against me” school of non-thinkers that controlled all branches of our government for so long.  I’ll give it time, hopefully the jackass black and white “thinkers” will snap out of it and recognize an entire country, and not just a shell of our United States.

Fred Soto is an Attorney and Entrepreneur from the Silicon Valley.
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