I agree.
The vast majority who comprise the moderate population in the middle east don't want the bin laden type extremist opposition in their part of the world any more than we want them in our part of the world. The best hope is, in fact, to keep the moderates in power in some combination form of parlimentary/monoarchy/democracy that will give the local populations the mandate to extinguish all the radical faction threats.
When the natives are empowered to exterminate the threat of the extremists in their back yard, we won't have to.
The reason for these increasingly regular and violent attacks was Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. These extreme groups (condemned by most peaceful Muslims) want to force America out of the Middle East and drive Israel into the sea. But where did they come from and how are they linked?
It was the overthrow of the shah of Iran by a radical Muslim movement in 1979 that set fundamentalist Islam on a collision course with America. The new government led by Ayatollah Khomeini determined to humiliate the "Great Satan", as they dubbed America; one of its first actions was to seize dozens of hostages in the American embassy in Tehran and hold them captive for almost a year.
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