It's not as if American policy hasn't provided the rest of the world enough of an excuse to strike at us with our publicly stated intention of ruling the world with brutal force. We have even shown them that international law including the precedents formulated at Nuremberg, means nothing. The gunsights of American weaponry up to and including nuclear hell is pointed at them. To my way of thinking, this is like a gunslinger coming into a frontier town ready and willing to pick fights and kill anyone that looks funny or wont pay protection at his whim. Eventually the town folk will form a posse or someone who has had enough fear or terror or grief will do the job with a shot from a window using a rifle. This is bad enough. This is how it is on the surface. Only the knowledge of murderous retaliation has kept this from occuring.

What really worries me is the notion that even with the world holding itself in restraint, knowing the horror of American retribution, someone here, with power or profit to gain will provide the rational using the obscene WMDs we have in U.S. arsenals, provided from our weapon labs from our taxes. If anything of this terror visits itself upon my people, or my children, the responsibility will be laid at the door or our leadership no matter where it resides. The boardrooms of elite power or the office of the shithead in charge. The contrived event of 9-11 was the 1st shot.