Count the dead on either side and you'll find just as many if not likely a lot more people over there with brothers who have been thus dispatched, if not by US troops then by US backed allies and/or US supplied weapons. Which may explain their attitude toward us.
Catch my drift?
Muslim history goes back 2000 years. For the most part, they didn't make nice with non-Muslims; initially Mohammed made advances to the Jews and Zoroastrians of the ARabian Peninsula, but once he realized he wasn't going to gain converts, he resorted to pure force, and imposed Islam on the peninsula, and from there it spread to quite a large area, always by force.
There were times and places where Muslims lived in peace with others, even Jews, but for the most part people aren't going to give up their traditions and beliefs for another's without the threat of death.
Osama bin Laden desires the return to the days of the Caliphate empire. He is very direct in saying this, and doesn't *****foot around. His initial actions were against the Russians, who he wanted out of Afghanistan, and later to force the US out of all ARab countries. But wait, the King of SAudi ARabia is perfectly happy dealing with America, and allows the US to put military bases on Saudi soil. So why did OBL attack the US, and not the Saudis, the patron themselves? He essentially tried to impose his will on the SAudi gov't, that's HIS personal brand of politics through his personal Islamic filter.
Muslims ARE oppressed. They generally are very fractured, religiously and culturally, and put more stock in religion, tribes, and families than national identities. So the strongest religious sect/tribe/family tends to rule. Instead of taking responsibility for themselves, and bettering or changing themselves, they blame their problems on Israel or the WEst, and it's very convenient for their rulers to foament that kind of behavior, otherwise citizens might actually rise up against the people actually responsible for their plight.
It's not Israel, not the US. IF you're going to blame an outside source, England would take the largest share, but that's not even accurate. Muslims/Arabs need to start looking in at themselves and where they are currently at, and taking responsibility for where they find themselves, and changing it. WE didn't do it, we didn't cause it. They did. There have been MANY far more oppressed nations on earth, and none of them used suicide bombing and terror to express outrage for something they DIDN'T cause, let alone something they did.
It takes work, brains, a little brawn, and a lot of disgression to become a great nation or people. Muslims seem to be content whining about how great they were, wondering why they aren't great now, promoting a culture of violence and condoning the use of violence to accomplish goals or gain attention, and generally pissing on anyone not Muslim. Not all are terrorists, not even close; but very few denounce the terrorists, and if I had a dollar for every time I heard 'that's awful, but...you gotta understand' from a Muslim after or in reference to a terror attack, I'd be a rich man. No, I don't have to understand why some jackholes flew a plane into the WTC, or why some ignorant **** blew up 32 kids on a bus in Jerusalem. There's NO justification for it. It's exactly this apologetic attitude which enables the terrorists to continue what they do.
Imagine if Muslims had a REAL reason to be pissy, say, THEY were the focus of Hitlers Final Solution instead of the Jews, or the victims of Pol Pot. My goodness, we'd be in a world of hurt right now.