- Many millions have been displaced, evacuated, stranded or lost their homes; numerous roads, schools and health clinics destroyed
- Hundreds of villages washed away
- Millions of livestock have perished; for the rural poor something akin to a Western stock market crash that wipes out years of savings
- Countless farms decimated, including critical crops like corn; officials say the damage is in the hundreds of millions of dollars and it does not appear that Pakistan will recover within the next few years
- Infectious diseases are rising sharply
- Airplanes of the United States of America have flown over Pakistan and dropped bombs on dozens of occasions [1]
A certain percentage of such people do change eventually and stop rationalizing; this happens usually after being confronted X-number of times with evidence of the less-than-beautiful behavior of their government around the world. The value of X of course varies with the individual; so don't give up trying to educate the hardened Americans you come in contact with. You never know when your enlightening them about a particular wickedness of their favorite country will be the straw that breaks their imperialist-loving back. (But remember the warning from Friedrich Schiller of Germany: Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens. - "With stupidity even the gods struggle in vain.")
Comment: For the answers to the above questions that Bill Blum asks about 9/11, see 9/11: The Ultimate Truth by Laura Knight-Jadczyk and Joe Quinn