[MizSterious]

"The sole purpose was to destroy it and reform that society so that they will never pose a future threat."

Bingo! Substitute "Nazi" for "Islam" and you have it. There are many similarities between bin Laden's Taliban movement and Hitler's Nazi movement. It's almost like history repeating itself sometimes.

"Understanding" the mindset of the Taliban terrorist serves only as an exercise in psychobabble and semantics. The one thing we need to understand is that they mean to destroy us. Whether or not they had "bad childhoods" or felt somehow "deprived" is meaningless. A scorpion stings because he is a scorpion, period. These are scorpions. They destroy because it is their nature to destroy.

[freeforall]

Hitler also hated Jews,Capatilism or any freedom of thought just like these thugs in al queda.History always in some way repeats it self the agressers will always have "beefs" with thier victims. After all Britian and France demanded reperations after WW1 and this "caused" the Germans to print money and this caused run away inflation and resulted in poverty and misery for the German nation. The ambitions of these terrorists is to destroy western civilization it would not matter what policy we have.If we had no policy they would say "it is America that thinks it is so smart that they can ignore us...but no longer we will make her listen" So then America makes a policy then they say we Don't like it because you are infidels and until you become one us we will destroy you. This is the mind set of a terrorist. Do we really need to understand the ROOT causes ya it's called will free or otherwise.Are we really expected to believe that American foriegn policy drove that plane in to those towers.