Throughout history, inter-Muslim and inter-Arab politics have been a combination of terrorism, political violence, violation of agreements, dictatorships and suppression of human rights. Those who resort to terrorism against domestic rivals are expected to employ terrorism against foreign ones.

Iran, Iraq and Syria consider the US as the chief obstacle on the way of realizing their megalomaniac ambitions: control of the Persian Gulf, takeover of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait oil fields, occupation of territories in Turkey and Jordan, acquiring nuclear, chemical and biological capabilities, etc.

The US represents the bastion of ideas that threaten the dictatorships of the Middle East: Free Market, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Expression, etc.

Anti-US Muslim forces have targeted Israel as a Jewish State, as well as “the Little Satan” that serves as the outpost of “the Big Satan”, advancing US interests and values in the Middle East, deterring radical regimes in the Middle East. In fact, an Israel-like outpost in the Persian Gulf would eliminate the need to deploy hundreds of thousands of American troops and spend billions of dollars in order to protect US interests. 

Islamic terrorism has targeted the US regardless of Israeli concessions and independent of US pressure on Israel (1993 Twin Towers, 1995/6 Saudi Arabia, 1998 Kenya and Tanzania, 2000 Aden).

Islamic terrorism has targeted the US in spite of the fact that six times in the last decade the US went in harm’s way in defense of Muslims in Kuwait, Northern Iraq (Kurds), Somalia, Bosnia and Kosovo.