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Whatever its mistakes, the idea that America brought the = onslaught=20 upon itself is absurd
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WHO is to = blame? The=20 simple answer—the suicide attackers, and those behind = them—is hardly adequate,=20 just as it would hardly be adequate simply to blame Hitler and his = henchmen for=20 the second world war, without mentioning the Treaty of Versailles or = Weimar=20 inflation. But that does not exculpate the perpetrators of last week's=20 onslaught, just as the Versailles treaty does not excuse Auschwitz: = whatever=20 their grievances, nothing could excuse an attack of such ferocity and = size. So=20 what explains it? A surprising number of people, and not just gullible = fanatics=20 looking for someone to hold responsible for the hopelessness of their = lives,=20 believe that to a greater or lesser extent America has reaped as it=20 sowed.

If this = charge is to be=20 taken at all seriously, it must first be separated from the general=20 anti-Americanism fashionable in some left-wing circles in Europe, say, = or even=20 Latin America. It may be reasonable to dislike the death penalty, a = society so=20 ready to tolerate guns, even the vigour of a culture that finds its = expression=20 in unpretentious movies and McDonald's hamburgers, but none of these = could=20 conceivably explain, let alone justify, a single act of terrorism. = Similarly,=20 though globalisation clearly arouses fury among protesters, and concern = among=20 some more moderate critics, it would be ridiculous to think that last = week's=20 attack was prompted by any American antipathy towards welfare payments, = closed=20 economies or restraints on speculative capital movements.

The charge = that in=20 politics the United States is arrogant, even hypocritical, may deserve = more=20 notice. America has recently brushed aside some good international = agreements=20 (on nuclear testing, for example, a world criminal court, land mines), = as well=20 as dismissing some bad ones (the Kyoto convention on global warming) = with an=20 insouciance unbecoming to the world's biggest producer of greenhouse = gases. Its=20 understandable determination to pursue a missile shield threatens to = upend the=20 system of deterrence and arms control that has so far saved the world = from=20 nuclear Armageddon. It has refused to pay its dues to the United = Nations, even=20 as it has cut its aid for the world's poorest. Its eagerness to = prosecute=20 African and Balkan war criminals while refusing to allow its own = nationals to=20 submit to an international court has made it seem unwilling to hold = itself to=20 the standards it imposes on others.

Were these = actions=20 unwise? Possibly. Have they caused resentment? Yes. But could that = resentment=20 plausibly have motivated a single one of last week's suicide attackers?=20 No.


The seeds of discord

Perhaps it = would be more=20 profitable to look deeper into the past. During the half-century of the = cold=20 war, the United States undoubtedly subordinated principles as well as = causes to=20 the overriding concern of defeating communism. The great upholder of = laws at=20 home was happy to trash them abroad, whether invading Grenada or mining=20 Nicaraguan harbours. It propped up caudillos in Latin America, = backed=20 tyrants in Africa and Asia, promoted coups in the Middle East. More = recently, it=20 has been willing to kick invaders out of Kuwait, to strike at ruthless = states=20 like Libya and Iraq and, moreover, to go on trying to contain them with=20 sanctions and, in Iraq's case, with almost incessant bombardment. Is it = here=20 perhaps—especially in the Middle East—that America has gone = wrong?

No. The = Economist=20 has not been an uncritical supporter of American policy in the Middle = East. We=20 have been more ready to argue the Palestinian case than have recent=20 administrations and believe that the United States could sometimes have = done=20 more to restrain Israel. We have also pointed out that the policy of = sanctions=20 against Iraq, whatever its intention, in practice punishes innocent = Iraqis and=20 thus allows Saddam Hussein to blame the West, notably America, for the = deaths of=20 thousands of Iraqi children. Perhaps nothing does more to fuel = anti-American=20 resentment in the Arab world. Such criticisms as we have made, however, = in no=20 way imply that we think America was wrong to fight the Gulf war or to = try to=20 disarm Saddam afterwards. It was also right to stand by Saudi Arabia as = an ally,=20 however much that annoyed zealots. Similarly, whatever Israel's = mistakes,=20 America can hardly be accused of having failed to try to bring it to a = peace:=20 every administration of recent years has attempted to bring the two = sides=20 together, and none has come closer than Bill Clinton's last = year.

America = defends its=20 interests, sometimes skilfully, sometimes clumsily, just as other = countries do.=20 Since power, like nature, abhors a vacuum, it steps into places where = disorder=20 reigns. On the whole, it should do so more, not less, often. Of all the = great=20 powers in history, it is probably the least territorial, the most = idealistic.=20 Muslims in particular should note that the armed interventions in Bosnia = and=20 Kosovo, both led by America, were attacks on Christian regimes in = support of=20 Muslim victims. In neither did the United States stand to make any = material=20 gain; in neither were its vital interests, conventionally defined, at = stake.=20 Those who criticise America's leadership of the world's capitalist = system—a far=20 from perfect affair—should remember that it has brought more = wealth and better=20 living standards to more people than any other in history. And those who = regret=20 America's triumph in the cold war should stop to think how the world = would look=20 if the Soviet Union had won. America's policies may have earned it = enemies. But=20 in truth, it is difficult to find plausible explanations for the = virulence of=20 last week's attacks, except in the envy, hatred and moral confusion of = those who=20 plotted and perpetrated them.



Copyright = =A9 2001 The=20 Economist Newspaper and The Economist Group. All rights=20 reserved.

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