No matter how you feel about those individuals responsible for Tuesday’s tragedy, you have to wonder what would make someone hate the United States so much. This editorial in the Guardian may have some answers, and unfortunately, it has nothing to do with people warring against “freedom” or “democracy”.

From the editorial:

Unconstrained by any superpower rival or system of global governance, the US giant has rewritten the global financial and trading system in its own interest; ripped up a string of treaties it finds inconvenient; sent troops to every corner of the globe; bombed Afghanistan, Sudan, Yugoslavia and Iraq without troubling the United Nations; maintained a string of murderous embargos against recalcitrant regimes; and recklessly thrown its weight behind Israel’s 34-year illegal military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza as the Palestinian intifada rages.