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"No, I don't need to see things from their point of view. Their religion declared war on us, we didn't declare war on them. It just so happened that there was no specific return address to respond to the attacks (yes, plural), and Saddam was as good a target as we could find."

- Their religion hasn't declared war on the US or any other Western nation.

On the other hand, the language of the Koran and other ancient scriptures of Islam is very violent concerning the subject of "infidels", which has a close connection to ancient persecution of Muslims by "heathen" Arabs, Christians and of course it also is related to the crusades. This however, is no excuse for terrorism and no excuse for Muslim denial of the threat of Islamofascism.

I don't have a hard time understanding why you, personally, do not wish to see things "their" way.

Still, I believe the West ought to study the Muslim world more closely. Among other things in order to discern who's friend and who's foe.

Islamists have declared war on the west. It is proclaimed from Mosques all over the world. Melanie Phillips has distributed tape recordings from inside Mosques in London, calling for jihad against the west and hanging of homosexuals.

What I understand about Islam is that the indoctrination runs so deep that it expunges all possibility of rational thought. Just when you think a Muslim believer is westernized, the emotional hatred of Islam surfaces. The NYT ran a frontpage article about the Sunnis attacking the Shiites in Detroit over the execution of Saddam Hussein. There is no point in trying to use reasoning skills to explain irrational thought.