"They do. And so does bin Laden and Hussein."
High time to show them - again - the terrible cost of their barbarity.
In the meantime, I was taking exception with the writer's use of the words "clash of civilizations."
When the same word "civilization" is used to describe both the U.S. (and by extension, "the west") and the uncivilized barbarians that perpetrated these acts of aggression, then there exists on the writer's part either a severe misunderstanding of that which constitues a "civilization," or it is a cynical attempt on his part to blur the distinctions that exist between the two and thus make us the moral equivalents of our enemies.
In either case, his repeated and inappropriate choice of language to describe what may more readily be called a "clash of cultures" or a "clash of civilization versus barbarism" tells me this writer is either terribly ignorant, or he has an axe to grind. Thus, his use of the language undermines what may otherwise be a perfectly reasonable premise.
ditto