well i have to say thatfrom where i sit and see things thru the fog, it seems to me that it wasnt carter or reagen or bush or clinton admins. but it goes back to just after WW2 when isreal and other mid east countrys were created. i do beleive that for decades we have been funding the ( pick one please: freedom fighters, terrorist, arab patriots, etc. etc.) but we fund them for our own interests. there is absolutly nothing at all wrong with hired help. but when that hired help is no longer useful or goes against what your ideas and beliefs are thats when you have to do something about them. think about this when russia was fighting in afghanastan they were fighting the "freedom fighters" now that we are fighting them we are fighting the "terrorists". same group of people just depends on wich side of the coin your lookin at.

the hero the patriot and the terrorist are all the same person it just depends on weather or not you agree with them. if me as an american was to fly a plane into a sky scraper in iraq (if there is one) id be a hero here, but to them i would be a terrorist.