[Dan Day]

"It has always seemed to me that in dealing with foreign countries we do not give ourselves a chance of success unless we try to understand their mentality, which is not always the same as our own, and it really is astonishing to contemplate how the identically same facts are regarded from two different angles."

I've followed Chamberlain's advice -- I have sought to understand the mentality of the terrorists, and and I have come to understand that they are so bug-eyed insane that the only way to deal with them is to kill them all.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

I have sought to understand the mentality of the terrorists

Yes, a truely symbolic maneuver used by most pacifists.

The more we understand, the more reasons we find to exterminate the terrorists.

Looking for an excuse for why the terrorists murdered thousands of peaceful people is not exactly a pacifist ideal. It's more of an accessory to the act....