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You can feed them hashish or whatever and turn people into berserkers. Also, in mercenaries people do it for other reasons.

Anyhow, when you look at the elated reaction from people in some areas of the world when it happened, one can see why people might react to that reaction with seething vengeance in mind.



You can see the ignorance of the people in this country from that anger. Those people celebrating were on the receiving end of American terrorism abroad.


Sometimes —but in many cases people in areas unaffected directly by American policy were celebrating as if they felt a tribalistic attachment perhaps to the aggrieved.

You're arguing that two wrongs make a right and in such argument the stronger party will win.


I’m not arguing that two wrongs make a right. I’m saying actions have consequences. And how could you possibly know those people celebrating we’re not affected by US policy and military exploits?




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