After the ouster of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the US turned its sights on the secular dictatorship of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. Instead of encouraging reform of the Saudi/Wahhabi regime – the system that spawned 15 of the 19 hijackers in the 9/11 attacks – the average Muslim saw America as waging war on a regime that had nothing to do with that crime.
阿富汗塔利班倒台后，美国把目光转向萨达姆侯赛因在伊拉克的世俗专制统治。沙特瓦哈比政权体制产生了9/11袭击中19名劫机犯中的15人。美国并没有鼓励该政权的改革，普通穆斯林民众认为美国在向一个与9/11犯罪毫无牵连的政权发动战争。