"I'm sure the Commission will not connect our foreign policy of interventionism — practiced by both major parties for over a hundred years — as an important reason 9/11 occurred."
Here's how I would take it -- I don't believe his standpoint was one of "Well, it's America's fault, and we deserved it. That settles it." I think he's trying to prove a point that we've gotten ourselves so entangled with other countries' business for so long, we wonder why there was an attack on our own soil.