> They are educated -- often in the West (so much for sharing our "values"). There is no way to classify them as "hopeless," or to view their seeking of martyrdom as the result of "desperation."
He misses this point - of course they are educated, usually at US universities (think Columbia, Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley etc etc) with ultra-liberal leanings. What their education is in is socialism, the victicrat mentality, along with the "blame America for all wrongs" worldview.
Have you ever heard of any radical who studied for a degree at, say, Grove City College ???
That's because Grove City doesn't have a highly ranked engineering program, especially at the graduate level.
Islamic terorrists are *not* poorly educated. Many of their leaders are PhD and MS engineers. There are doctors and scientists in their ranks. The vast majority of them have studied in the US - and they don't major in wimmin's studies or English lit, where the real liberal wingnuts hang out. Working on an MD, or a PhD in electrical engineering leaves NO time for campus liberalism.