You're right. For an intelligent and/or feeling human being it is not possible to understand how it is possible to indoctrinate western people/society in a way that they are really thinking that they are fighting a defensive war in Afghanistan against people not able to construct simple cars, for example. They do not have any possibility to attack any western nation in any other way than from within it's own boarders. Nazi-Germany was not superior to Poland at the beginning of WW2 to an extend as the US is today to Afghanistan, the whole Arabic world and a large portion of this planet.