Absolutely America creates its own enemies. Being the superpower that it was in the 1900's and continues to be today, eventually parts of the world are going to get tired of American presence everywhere. We haven't exactly been the models of morality with our history in the states.
Ron Paul had the audacity to argue this in the primaries but got booed for suggesting that our overly-aggressive foreign policy creates enemies.
I think a lot of Americans are woefully misled in thinking that our problems can be fixed just by, say, destroying Al Qaeda or toppling an Arab regime. The real problem lies within America's knack for creating enemies and interfering too much around the world.
Ron Paul had the audacity to argue this in the primaries but got booed for suggesting that our overly-aggressive foreign policy creates enemies.
I think a lot of Americans are woefully misled in thinking that our problems can be fixed just by, say, destroying Al Qaeda or toppling an Arab regime. The real problem lies within America's knack for creating enemies and interfering too much around the world.