Well we didn't do that... we instead tried to snag some of the more probable terrorists and remove them from causing harm. And we didn't just level Afghanistan, we tried to liberate it.
From the people you spent years arming and supporting in the 80s.
Same in Iraq.
From the person you armed and supported in the 80s.
Now Iran
Fair enough, America didn't support them (and only moderately armed them) but the current Iranian government is in power following American meddling in the whole matter of the Shah.
Are you noticing a pattern yet?
who has the same nasty habits towards its citizens (sometimes), doesn't like the idea of dictatorships falling. Who knows, their people might get some rather uncomfortable ideas. So they support terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan. Simple self-preservation.
Sorry but there is
nothing simple about it. You may wish to claim it is simple in order to justify sabre-rattling but that certainly doesn't make it so. And if you want to talk about supporting terrorism, try starting with America's long involvement with terrorists and terrorist organisations before you start pointing fingers.
Except I would rather just take the government of Iran out, too. xP People say we're not the police force of the world... well I for one think that if you make a consistent habit of torturing or killing your citizens without a way to remove the government responsible by the citizens' own hand, the neighborly thing to do would be to remove said government for the citizens. For obvious reasons, said governments are not very keen about that idea.
Fine. Start with Saudi Arabia though. Or Kuwait. Or any other country that tortures its citizens.
Why are we only hearing about Iran? Could it simply be that despite not being much worse than the other countries I mention Iran isn't an ally of America?