Agreed.
Why Americans? There are plenty of other places they could focus their hatred. Does their 'holy book' talk about America specifically? Why didn't Bin Laden target Canada? Do they teach the kids to hate Canada? What about Mexico? Their prophet must have mentioned the U.S. specifically. That is the only explanation for this, if the Koran is the sole motivation.
But they don't use that as their reason. They use our foreign policy as their reason.
Let me put this simply. Do you think Bin Laden would have targeted the United States for his attacks if we had minded our own business?
If so, why did he flat-out lie about his motivations?
Why doesn't the Koran talk about America? Maybe because it was written before there was such a thing as America? Just a guess there... as far as why do they ONLY hate Americans? They don't. They've committed terrorist acts in Germany, France, Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Syria ... LOTS of places. And of course they kill each other just as much if not more than they kill US. But regardless, they do teach their kids to hate us and the Jews, specifically. Why us? Because we're quite possibly the only powerful country on earth that isn't steeped in anti-semitism. Most of the world has a long, rich history of hating Jews. WE as a country do not.
Minding our own business? LOL. Remember, that region of the world has been exporting war against the west for 2,500 years. There's no such thing anymore as "minding your own business." We can't just "mind our own business" and think everything will be hunky dory. It won't be. It never will be. It's far too late for that when they're currently teaching their children that killing us is a good and righteous thing to do. This fight is going to go on for generation after generation after generation. They're still harping about the Crusades, for crying out loud. We could bring everybody home from around the world right now, today, and we would have generations of war coming to us from that region. War against us in their culture now. It's part of their tradition and their history. You aren't going to change that by "minding your own business."
And if Bin Laden didn't have the fact that we had troops in Saudi Arabia, with the permission of the Saudi government, to use to attack us, he'd have found something else that he could blame us for.