"The Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost"

We have been bombarded with the most inflammatory of Wright's remarks. The media tells us to accept that all of the famous BYTES playing on repeat are the most vicious, un-American things a person can say.

However, one of Wright's remarks gets to the core problem with America's unfocused foreign policy in the Mid-East and the unintended consequences of such an ad hoc approach.

When Wright states that 9/11 was America's "chickens coming home to roost;" he is RIGHT on.

Does this justify the atrocious acts of 9/11? BY NO MEANS. I would never make such an argument or suggest anything of the sort. However, the media and politicians on both sides of the aisle will depict terrorists as pure nut jobs that randomly woke up one day and decided they were going to attack American because of we are free.

This is not the case.

One of the great failures of our government in the wake of 9/11 was the neglect to identify a motive for 9/11. (Again, a motive does not necessitate justification.) Bin Laden worked WITH the US in the Afghanistan proxy war throughout the '80s. Two things led to his extreme turn against us: 1) neglect to Afghanistan and the Taliban when they no longer cold be used as an instrument to advance our national interests. 2) the establishment of permanent bases on his homeland and the Holy Land of Saudi Arabia.

It is widely reported that Bin Laden welcomed the prospect of our Iraq excursion. Whether he personally did so or not, it was beyond cavil that the invasion of Iraq would help his cause NOT ONLY through recruitment of new members, but also because he counted the Iraq regime as an enemy of Al Qaeda's long-held goals due to its secular rather than religious makeup.

When/if we are faced with another AQ attack on American soil, but this time, carried out by native Iraqi's, we will know "the chickens are coming home to roost."

This comment should not be included in the 'Best of Rev. Wright' mash-up. It stifles a legitimate and much needed debate over our foreign policy objectives and the resulting unintended consequences.