Understanding terrorism

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Originally Posted by russotto

And if the root cause is simply that they like killing Westerners? That they find our very infidel existence intolerable?

All this violence was long ongoing for hundreds of years before we decided to save them from themselves. Massacres in the name of fundamentalism and to eliminate fundamentalism occurred without even an historical footnote. Now we too are stuck in the quicksand because somehow we were going to fix something we did not even understand.

Only a misinformed fool would think Islamic Fundamentalism is only about killing westerners. Westerners were rarely a target until after 1 Aug 1990. In fact, some Islamic Fundamentalists once welcomed Americans as friends or honest brokers. What changed? Without that answer, then the whole thread started by Lookout123 will only be a waste of time.