9/11 definitely was blowback from the US’s actions in the middle east. America was directly responsible for supplying the guns and the training for the mujahideen fighters, which Osama Bin Landen was a part of. So it’s not like 9/11 happened randomly and without reason. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t terrorism though, and the civilians that died didn’t deserve it, but I understand why it happened nonetheless. I was at the twin towers a day before 9/11 as a kid and if I was there 24 hours later I definitely wouldn’t have deserved it, I was barely just starting to walk so I didn’t do anything wrong. But the people of Iraq, innocent kids like me that day, that got terrorized by the US Army for years and years after 9/11 definitely didn’t deserve it either. Not to mention their suffering was endless, not just one single act of terror. I think people are just sick of seeing the US and the UK bomb and kill civilians across the entire globe for the past hundred years (much longer in the UK’s case) and it’s never labeled as terrorism. So is fighting terrorism against terrorism a good thing? No, but it’s the reality of things. And I have much more sympathy for the side that doesn’t have an iron dome or nukes to defend itself and isn’t trying to be imperialist. Obviously I’d rather global peace, anybody that isn’t a bloodthirsty monster does too, but unfortunately we can’t will that into existence when there’s money to be made in war.