The 10-year anniversary of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center just brings up an enormous number of emotions and questions. One is addressed in this excerpt from Andrew Marr’s interview with Tony Blair about his memoirs last year (the discussion of nine eleven starts at 10:00 in):
At 11:40 we hear the following:
Blair: This movement [that was behind the attacks] is still there. It is, I’m afraid, still strong. It has a narrative that reaches into a far larger part of the population that is to do with the West and Islam and so on…
Marr: But is it partly strong because of the nature of our response? Because we went in so heavy, we went in so hard…
Blair: That’s the debate, Andrew, that is absolutely the heart of the debate. And the West has got to resolve this debate: is the reason why they’re like that because of us, or is it actually because of them? Now, my view in the end is, we should stop being in a situation where we think we’ve caused this. We haven’t caused this!
Thoughts?
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