Your analysis is 100% correct. On reading most of the posts on this site, we might be forgiven in thinking that history began on 9-11 when those religious obscurantist fanatics flew those planes into the twin towers.

The problems go way back. They stem from the post war period when US global imperial hegemony began to take shape. In this respect, people often forget the other 9-11 in Chile when in 1973 the CIA instigated and oversaw the overthrow of Salvador Allende, the democratically elected leader of that nation, replacing him with the fascist Auguste Pinochet who happened to be, lets say, a little more sympathetic to US economic interests.

Beginning with Guatamela in 1953, this was a pattern that was set to continue up to and including the illegal occupation and subsequent occupation of Iraq. In total, the US either overtly or covertly since WW2 have been involved in the "regime change" of over 50 governments throughout central and south America and the middle east.

The US military and political ruling classes throughout this time have relied on the tried and tested method of "my enemies enemy is my friend" as a means to bolster their global geo-political and stategic position.

Now, eventually the process of 'blowback' will inevetibly occur and we had to wait for 9-11 for that to happen. You see, my friends, what happens is that the double-crossing, double-standards and foreign policy hypocrisy will eventually come back to haunt the imperial overlord - the imperial puppet master.

In such a situation the puppet will turn, and sadly, did turn on that fateful day in New York. Like I say, it was an inevitable consequence of 60 years of US imperialism. You see if you deceive and double-cross enough democratically elected leaders for long enough those leaders at the behest of their respective populations will bite back.

In other words, all of a sudden "my enemies enemy is my friend" metaphorphazizes into "my enemies enemy is my enemy". The compliant thug, becomes the non-compliant thug - hence, Saddam and hence more dramatically, those planes smashing into the twin towers.

The mad Mullahs are mad for a reason, but all we appear to want to do is bury our heads in the sand and pretend that 60 years of US imperialism never happened and that it was all a bad dream.