Obama's minister Jeremiah Wright and "blowback"

Here is what Rev. Wright has preached: "We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye," Wright said. "We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost."

Remember what Malcolm X said after Pres. Kennedy was assassinated? "America's chickens have come home to roost." Elijah Muhammad, then leader of the so called "black" muslims, ordered Malcolm to apologize, and then demoted him. So what is Rev. Wright thinking? He MUST remember what malcolm X said, but he said it anyway! He must have known it would get attention, since Barack is a member of his church. So why did he say it?

Frankly, he is correct. We did worse than drop two atomic bombs on japan, we fire bombed their major cities even though we knew japan was defenseless. Just because japan's leaders were fanatics didn't mean we had the "right" under war to burn innocent civilians. But still, to blame the victims of 911 for their own deaths is just dumb. i don't think most Americans understand US policy toward palestinians, nor do they realize the type of warfare we fought during WWII that included firebombing civilians, nor do they realize how we refused some jewish immigration prior to WWII, nor do they realize the US was aware of concentration camps and so forth...

I do think that 911 was "blowback" - that is, the unintended consequences of covert operations. In other words, our gov does stuff that it keeps secret from citizens, but its no secret to those it is done to. We support dictatorships in middle east like Saudi Arabia, because we need the oil - but Saudi citizens are disenfranchised. So some radical Islamic nut decides to get back at the US for supporting the Saudi royal family, and the end result is 911. American people think, whoa! why would someone hijack airplanes and do such a criminal act? we dont understand the policies that the US has pursued that precipitated the terrorist acts.

But blowback is not the fault of its victims: its the fault of politicians.