Of course one may always get the unvarnished truth from a blog site called "antiwar". If it makes you feel better to paint the 9/11 terrorists as misunderstood guys driven over the top by US aggression in Saudi Arabia drive on. History does not bear this out, and if you doubt ME aggression can start being a threat to us you may want to review GW I. Talk to a few Kuwaitis and Saudis who were there and ask them how they felt about ME brotherhood and the Great Satan pulling their fat out of the fire.
Iran's monthly rant about burning the US and it's allies down in a nuclear holocaust is a balanced reaction to what? My guess is that our next moves are going to be much more violent and much less concerned with rebuilding or assistance.