Rationalizing Americans' Will to Attack America: Economistan

America is all abuzz these days with the Times Square bombing plot by the US national Faisal Shahzad with Pakistan increasingly coming under fire for the reason that Faisal went to Pakistan to get explosives training. What the US has failed to recognize is that not all terror incidents can be traced to Pakistan. What about the case of the American born US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan who killed 13 US Army personnel and ended up wounding 30 people before he was finally shot down? The only major similarity of interest between Faisal and Nidal was that both of these US nationals were living a privileged life in the US or what the US people are programmed to call as the so called "American Dream". Now we have to find out exactly how this "American Dream" turned out to be an " American Nightmare". Is it because Muslims are unfairly victimized in the US or discriminated against or is it because Muslims find themselves under severe scrutiny along with harassment through a constant barrage of anti-Muslim comments or sentiments from the general public? Is the US media playing a major role in alienating the American Muslim population or the fault lies with the right wing extremist Christians omnipresent in the continental United States? Do these right wing Christian extremists consider this war on terror as another crusade against Islam or a war which is against all acts of terror including those by their fellow Christians like Timothy McVeigh and those by the IRA and the Basque separatist movement in Spain where all are equally....

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