Boston Bombing

[Trooper]

McVeigh was a loner who couldn't get a girlfriend, and had chosen to further isolate himself socially because of the divorce of his parents, even though he had a lot going for him with his talents with computer sciences in school. He chose to be an atheist, and sympathized with enemies of the United States because we "...were the biggest bully in the world...". This is a common complaint you hear from foreigners in 3rd-world countries, or former colonial powers who now live in the shadow of US international prominence, let alone ignorant school propagandists in the US elementary, high school, and university-level indoctrination centers, who have never set foot outside the US, and know painfully little of what goes on in the world.

McVeigh turned out to be weak-minded person who sought deviant means to seek justice, with the easy path that the blame America crowd takes, and it resulted in him getting in bed with professional Middle Eastern cells that had sponsorship from states that had a bone to pick with the US after the Gulf War, especially since the radical elements within those States held their own governments liable for allowing filthy US infidels to set foot in their deforested, dusty holy land. What you commonly see in the Middle East is a dynamic where the governments of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria face a constant internal pressure of trying to govern with radical trouble-makers who have been influenced by extremist religious fanatics, and they pose a serious problem for society.

So the best way for them to manage this problem is to harness it, train it, and focus it outwards to achieve the interests of the state in foreign countries, or on strategic locations within their countries used by foreign entities. In the post-Soviet/Afghan War of 1979-1989 era, you had a mass of various foreign fighters who had traveled to Afghanistan to fight the godless communists, now with nothing better to do, so they became a significant pressure in the region, and the various intelligence services of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia in particular didn't waste any time directing the pressure valve on their enemies.

For Pakistan, it involved internal strife and surrogate warfare with India, their arch rival. For Saudi Arabia, it involved regional and trans-continental attacks. Both countries provided bodies, training, and aid to Al Qaeda, to include the assassination of Jewish Rabbi Meyer Kahane, the 1993 World Trade Center bombing by the Al Farouq Mosque out of NYC (involving a Ryder truck with the same type of mega-explosive later used in OKC), the USS Cole bombing, the embassy bombings in the Arabian Peninsula, the Khobar Tower bombing in Saudi Arabia, and so forth. OKC is better understood in this light, not the non-existent domestic Christian white supremacist, anti-gubm't movement assigned to McVeigh in the whitewash of that "investigation".

You just gave a profile that fits most American leftwingers. Isolated, often picked on in high school. Identify with those who are oppressed, especially those who claim to be victims of the US. Easy to hate the US as it is symbolic of the country that housed the high school that bullied you. But then I know a few libertarians who seem to hold the same values.