Hornberger's Blog   Empire and the Destruction of America   If
there’s a bright side to the national security states
assassination of one of its citizens, its this: At least the
statists are not saying that the dead man, Anwar al-Awlaki,
hated America for its freedom and values. Most every statist is
acknowledging that Awlaki’s anger toward the United States was
driven by his hatred for what the U.S. Empire has been doing to
people in the Middle East.  That’s progress.  After all, don’t
forget that immediately after the 9/11 attacks, statists, led by
President George W. Bush, declared that the terrorists were
motivated by hatred for Americas freedom and values.
Libertarians, on the other hand, said that the statist position
was nonsense that such a position was simply a way to avoid
confronting the bad things that the Empire had been doing to
people in the Middle East for years. Arabs and Muslims were
angry, we pointed out, because of U.S. foreign policy in that
part of the world.  Statists were outraged ove