[I was surprised 9-11 went down with the lunatics here for over a year.]
You are forgetting that Ata and the others were deliberately kept on a tight budget for exactly that reason. The night before the attack, they wanted to buy prostitutes but it cost too much. Imagine these wild looking arabs and diminutive little Ata scoring with the American women without money, job cover or personalities to impress the women.
The hijacker handlers deliberately chose gamma males for the job (nobody with social graces would do). The German spies included alpha males and that was the tactical mistake for the Germans.
Alpha males can seduce women. Gamma males have to pay for it. Little arabs like Ata in strip clubs, pretending their pilots, is pathetic.
So, like Son of Sam, who was a gamma male...Ata could be expected only to hate American society more and more as he realized that American alpha males were taking more and more of what he might have thought was his fair share.
Liberal societies, in this regard, do have a tendency to produce or stengthen serial killers like Ata and Son of Sam. The reason is simple: a "Christian" environment demands that every male get his chance at only one woman. This leaves a "fair share" for the gamma males and the gamma males don't go off the deep end with rage.
Since 9-11, a lot of extraordinarily attractive young Clintonite American women have taken up a strategy of giving "mercy sex" to (or actually desiring) anti-Bush arabs on college campuses. I've already chronicled half a dozen cases I saw personally in 2002-2004. The relationship revolves around the arab man's hatred for Bush which the women find sexy. (Frenchmen have discovered their sexual desirability on American campuses as well).
We may think this is a total outrage (and it is!) but the behavior is a two-edged sword against the enemy.
If Ata or any of his weird-looking co-hijackers had been seduced or even befriended by a whacko Code Pink volunteer or Cindy Sheehan who said she believed in "the insurgents"...he quite possibly may have decided that he quite liked the advantage anti-Bush arabs now have with liberal American women and he would want to stay alive to exploit this.
I guess it is at least a good thing that Americans are no longer letting Arabs in America walk around looking alienated. The idea is to start conversations with them and find out where they are at.
Unfortunately, I believe too many liberals are trying to "befriend" arabs in America who actually do tell them where they are at (pro-terror) and the liberals do not go to FBI.GOV to report them.
Interesting analysis.