As long as we are appealing to emotion here, let's not forget that Saudis composed nearly 80% of the 9/11 hijackers that killed our women and children and blew up our workplaces.
Saudi Arabia has done little to engender trust.
Saudi Arabia has done little to engender trust.
On the one hand, put every non-US citizen killed by the US.
On the other hand, put every US citizen killed by all other countries and terrorists combined.
Guess which number is vastly bigger than the other. 5-10 thousand dead in 9/11? That's peanuts, compared to the disproportionate responses that ensued. (I'm not saying it's peanuts in an absolute sense. It's still a tragedy, of course. Any death is.)
If we use this handy wikipedia page shown below we can see that US military casualties are at a touch over 1.3 million.
Let me know when you're done being facetious and/or have an answer for your number of non-US citizens killed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualti...
You know when the US government tells you it's killing enemy combatants in Pakistan via drone attacks? What they don't tell you is they define any combatants as men aged 18-40 in that region.