What I'm asking these days is: "Why don't they fear us?"
This must be a rhetorical question, correct?
The obvious answer, should anyone care, is this:
Where suicide in the act of retribution is considered an honor, fear does not enter the equation.
If you don't want to know what motivates terrorists, then be prepared to watch our government's actions create more of them.
Have you asked that of the WH lately? Blackbird.
And that is why I am seriously considering a vote for Ron Paul in the Iowa Caucuses next January. (I would vote for him in the Ames Straw Poll, but my wife is making me go to a wedding! Grrr. But I digress)
I don't think the current administration is putting the fear of god, any god, into them. If you are at war, go and kick the holy crap out of somebody, don't dink around. I perceive our war effort as dinking around.
We blew up your shrine? Too freaking bad! We are THE UNITED STATES of AMERICA. We are the baddest mofos to ever walk the face of earth. We are the smartest, strongest military ever assembled. We don't need to rape your women, they will come to us willingly, because they would love to have the children of supermen. So there. And if you don't like it, we'll kick your rear until you do like it, or until you like watching real football, eating bacon cheeseburgers, and gaping at sitcoms like most Americans.
And if we don't do it that way, we just as well try Ron Paul's way.