The Radicalization of the Middle East (as if it needs any more)

It is now day 12 of the new massacre in the Middle East, in Israel,Lebanon, and Gaza. Everything is escalating and getting worse. The rhetoric I'm hearing on television is making me sick. Every time someone asks about the amount of force Israel is using on civilians in Lebanon, the response is to point out that Hezbollah started it. I just heard our president say the same thing when asked about the civilian suffering. Rather than say anything about their suffering, he plays the blame game. I agree hezbollah started this, and they are attacking Israeli citizens with rockets,but isn't that why they are called terrorists? Are we not supposed to be the better people? It is so easy for these people to talk as if they're playing a game of "BATTLESHIP" , while civilians on the ground are paying the price.
Imagine this. You're a Palestinian male living in Gaza trying to support your family. For years, every time you leave your house, you are interrogated by israeli troops at a checkpoint in your neighborhood. Now, these are not border checkpoints, they are spread all throughout palestinian territory. You want to bring your wife to the doctor, but you are stopped at the checkpoint and questioned as to where you're going. After explaining where you are headed, you are told to wait on the side of the road. After an hour or so of watching the soldiers hang around and do nothing that has to do with you, they decide that your wife has permission to go to the doctor but you may not go with her. She has to go, but doesn't feel safe without you. Off she goes, looking back at you the whole time, and you are told to go back home. After years of dealing with situations like this, you are becoming more and more radical. Then, one day, as if a miracle had occurred, Israel announces it is withdrawing from your land and you will be free to vote for your own government. After voting, you feel proud. You are free to walk down the street whenever you like. Your future seems positive, until the election results come in. Hamas has won, and that wasn't supposed to happen, at least not as far as the powers that be were concerned. Suddenly, you're worse off than you were before Israel left. The international community is pulling back all the funds they have been sending to help the palestinian people. Due to this, your lights are off for most of the day, you have very little, if any, food, clean water, gas/oil, medicine, and there is no one to pick up the trash in the street. Who are you going to blame for this? Why is the rest of the world letting you and your family starve? This is usually when some radical cleric gets your ear, and convinces you to join a terror organization.
Now, I am not making excuses for terrorists. There are some very bad people in this world, and they will always be around to take advantage of situations like the one above. I am only saying that if it weren't for our skewed middle east policies, there would be no one for these terrorists to recruit. And we all know guys like Bin Laden are not going to blow themselves up. I highly recommend watching a documentary called "Checkpoint", made by an Israeli citizen, which shows what happens at these checkpoints. There is no commentary, only footage, so no one can claim the filmmakers are biased. This documentary will open your eyes as to how you would react if put in the same situation as the Palestinian people.
This is not George Bush's fault alone. He has only made it worse. These policies have been in effect for many years. The problem now is that at the time when we had the chance to get the world on our side (after 9/11), our leader has done the opposite, and turned the world community against us. I feel this is due to our presidents lack of understanding of the world, and his ignorance of world history. Our president and his friends are a bunch of cowboys who don't think through the end results of their actions(see Iraq), and therefore they are very dangerous.
Take the situation going on in lebanon as I am writing. Bush & co. have touted the Lebanese government as a symbol of democracy in the middle east. Lebanon is an ethnically mixed country, and that is represented in their democratic government. Unfortunately, that includes Hezbollah, and just like in Gaza, we want to change that. In the short time this govt. has been in power, they have managed to disarm all but one of the militias in their country. The only militia they couldn't disarm was Hezbollah, who is very popular in Lebanon due to the social services they provide. The Lebanese government knew that to disarm Hezbollah before the population was ready was to start another civil war. Now, Israel has decided that by not routing Hezbollah soon enough, the Lebanese govt. has failed, and they need to step in and "save" them. The funny thing is, Israel not only is responsible for the formation of Hezbollah, which began due to Israel's invasion of Lebanon in the 80's, but they themselves had 18 years of fighting Hezbollah, and they not only couldn't disarm them, but they were driven out of Lebanon by them. So how the hell is a new government which has nowhere near the capability of Israel going to beat them? So, now here we are, right back where we were years ago. The government of Lebanon has lost the confidence of their people, while at the same time Hezbollah is gaining more support. The people of Lebanon are becoming more and more radical due to the bombardment of their homes while their so called allies, the U.S., is basically cheering Israel on.
Now, many neocons brush it off when it is said that our actions in Iraq have actually created more terrorists, along w/ the insurgency. Well, it is true. Our actions consistently play into the terrorists hands. Bringing war to these countries has the exact opposite effect than it is supposed to have. We supposedly are doing this to HELP the Iraqis, but that is not how it feels to the people on the ground. Imagine China invading Massachusetts and saying they are liberating us from Mitt Romney. Now, I'm not a big fan of Mitt's, but that doesn't mean I want some foreign soldiers coming here to take care of him. Of course, I am not comparing Mitt to Saddam Hussein in any, way, shape, or form, but think about it. Foreign troops searching for any Romney supporters, going house to house, unable to speak our language, and with no clue about our culture. Add to that the fact that we continously destroy their neighborhoods w/ bombs in the name of saving them, just as Israel is doing now in Lebanon. Civilians see this, and naturally become radicalized. How come we haven't caught onto this yet? Yes, there are people that are running these terror groups that are animals who wanna destroy our way of life. But we have people like that in this country. There are many American KKK and skinhead groups etc that are always on the hunt for soldiers to join up. There are people seeking power and destruction of others in every country on earth, but in the middle east we help the terror leaders recruit by the actions we take in that part of the world.