\”[Al Qaeda leader Osama] bin Laden, rightfully or wrongly, called out, called us for insulting his country [Saudi Arabia] by keeping 10,000 troops there for 10 years under the Bush, under the Clinton administration, coming into your administration, the President’s. Are we sometimes to blame for the hell that we’ve raised? That’s all I’m asking. Is it always the other guys’ fault, or do we do things that send signals that we are the enemy of those people?\”
— MSNBC’s Chris Matthews to U.S. Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes on Hardball, December 13.