Bowing down to terrorists

So, the leader of the Republicans in the House of Representatives has warned [spain] against "appeasement" after the recent bombings in Madrid.

Quite so old chap, but um, weren't the attacks on 9/11 directly related to the presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia.

from the independent:

Even Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz has admitted that the U.S. military presence in the Saudi kingdom was putting Americans in the crosshairs of the terrorists.

That late coming revelation has been obvious to anyone who read the writings of Osama bin Laden since the early 1990’s. Bin Laden became enraged at the United States mostly by a U.S. military presence that he believed desecrated the holiest sites of Islam and supported a corrupt Saudi monarchy. (U.S. support for Israel and sanctions against Iraq were only secondary gripes added to gain wider support for his cause in the Arabic and Islamic worlds). In contrast to the allegations of President Bush, the September 11 attacks were not caused by the terrorists’ hate of American democracy (nor by hostility toward American culture or prosperity). Yet even with plenty of warning--bin Laden’s attacks on two American embassies and Africa and on the U.S.S. Cole--the U.S. government did not eliminate its unneeded military presence from Saudi Arabia.

[ sources http://www.independent.org/tii/news/030430Eland.html and orkut (again!) ]

I'm hoping Pavel (if he reads this) will not fault the logic on this one :-)