James Taranto of OpinionJournal.Com (which is owned by the Wall Street Journal) takes just a few sentences to show the complete and utter absurdity of those who ventured that American foreign policy or poverty or oppression or [insert excuse here] was the “root cause” of the 9/11 attacks.
Taranto is writing about the arrest last night of two Jewish Defense League members who allegedly were planning to blow up a mosque and other targets. After outlining the basics of the arrest, Taranto writes,
Watch for the root-cause crowd to come forward with the usual explanations: The poverty and oppression under which L.A. Jews live makes this sort of thing understandable, if not inevitable; they did it as a protest against U.S. foreign policy; their alleged targets need to ask themselves: Why do they hate us? Yeah, we expect to hear this stuff any minute now.