Someone at State might disagree, Cliff. I have in my hands a transcript of Karen Hughes on al Jazeera last Dec 19. She said, in part:

“The U.S. acknowledged [after] the events of September 11 that our policies might have created feelings of frustration and hatred, [causing those individuals] to board those airplanes, [fly them into the twin towers], and kill people. We want to change these circumstances, and this is what we are doing today…. ”