You understand if we weren't on there land and weren't interfering with other countries affairs there would not be any attacks? They are nationalist extremist, would you like Russia to come into our country and start telling us how to run it? No you wouldn't and i'm willing to bet that some of you would want to stand up to them...Al Qaeda is a group of extremist fighters, they are strong nationalist and don't want us getting involved with their country.
We had the option of peace or oil...you can tell which one we chose.