Why They Hate Us

Glenn Greenwald is a lawyer, columnist, author, and blogger.  He started his blog, Unclaimed Territory, in 2005 and since then he has written two New York Times Bestsellers, How should a Patriot Act and A Tragic Legacy, and has become a contributing columnist and blogger for Salon.

On October 12, 2010 Glenn posted a blog, They hate us for our occupations, about suicide terrorism and what we can do to make it stop.  A study done in 2004 told us that terrorism is caused by America's direct intervention in the Muslim world. A  recent study proves that not only is that true but it especially applies to the armed forces occupying Iraq and Afghanistan.

Glenn's claim is that we need to remove our armed forces from foreign soil.  It is just aggravating them more to have us over there and interfering in their lives.  He uses a very sarcastic approach to say that obviously we are just making them more mad and the suicide terrorism hasn't stopped, so why don't we change something.  He pulls excerpts from an article by Laura Rozen talking about the recent research done by Robert Pape, a political science professor at the University of Chicago.  Pape's research shows a six year study of suicide terrorist attacks around the world and it concludes that foreign military presence triggers suicide bombings,  
"We have lots of evidence now that when you put the foreign military presence in, it triggers suicide terrorism campaigns, ... and that when the foreign forces leave, it takes away almost 100% of the terrorist campaign," Pape said in an interview last week on his findings.

Glenn's audience is people who would classify themselves as liberal and want military troops to come home.  He does a great job of using sources to validate his opinion that the military occupation of foreign country is hindering not helping.