Quote Originally Posted by Basil77 View Post
The reason was obvious, you've named it yourself: Sympathy for the USA.
Yes... But one has to wonder what the Chinese were thinking. Somehow they don't strike me as a government that would shed any tears over some lost lives in the USA - they are even willing to shoot down their own countrymen, and big tragedies happen there on a regular basis. It wouldn't surprise me if they thought something like: 'You want another Vietnam.... be my guest! hehe.... good luck boys - we can lend you some more money if you like...... "

Afghanistan is not in their sphere of influence exactly, and perhaps the ethical issue with invading a country on the other side of the globe did not worry them. (But wait until the UN tries to vote about a country on their border, like North Korea.)

Who knows, maybe Russia was thinking the same thing, although it's really strange in my opinion, that Russia did not at least TRY to stop it! If nothing else, I think that narcotics are coming into Russia from there, and it's destabilising for countries in Central Asia. But then, the whole world was like in a trance at that time. For months, you practically saw nothing on the news other than those planes again and again, and crying Americans. Maybe it got to the Russians too.

The fact that no Europeans vetoed it just shows how brainwashed most are to love America no matter what they do, and never question their actions. At the time, I did not think much about it myself, I was only mildly against it.

Interestingly, Bin Laden himself said that his reasons for the attack was that he hated American military bases in Saudi. As crazy as he was.... Well yes. American bases in other countries are bad. If they didn't have them, Sept 11 might never have happened.