republicanchick,
I hope you are able to have empathy. If you do, you should consider how you might react if Iran began laying concrete and building military bases near your neighborhood churches.
Bin Laden's complaint before 9/11 was made clear to the West:
Stop stationing troops and building bases in their sacred land around Mecca. Respect our sovereignty.
We didn't, until a few months after 9/11. Rumsfeld officially closed the bases and withdrew. But by then it was too late.
How would YOU react if you belonged to a similar tribal society?
