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It's simply not that simple.
Let's try a little pretending, do you remember pretend? Barney the Dinosaur use to teach it to us. Anywho.
Let's say you're an uneducated farm boy in the mountains of Afghanistan, you don't have anything, I mean like you and your entire family live in a one room hut where you all sleep on the floor and **** outside.
While you're tending to your small herd an American airstrike destroys your hut and kills your entire family... mom, dad, your two sisters and your baby brother...
Some guys come to you and ask "Do you wanna get revenge?"
That doesn't excuse or make me happy that he went into a market and blew himself up, or killed American soldiers. It doesn't.
But it explains WHY he does what he does, and until you understand that, peel back the "They're all just evil" simpleton viewpoint, only then can you begin to turn back the tide.
Actually I heard an interview with a guy on PBS yesterday that wrote a book called Terrorist In Love. Weird freakin title but I am going to read it. It was about how fooked up kids were used and brainwashed to do suicide bombings. Thing is every criminal has a sob story about mommy and daddy and blah blah blah, cry me a river. Understanding terrorist will not stop terrorisim, killing them before they kill us will. Oh and by the way your hero obama is killing more civilians in his drone attacks than Bush ever imagined and "creating terrorist", according to you that is.