Terrorists are wrong. They are not freedom fighters, revolutionary
heros or any other euphemism people have dreamed up to
excuse the horrific behavior. Stop defending them.

Understanding is not defending.

There is a reason for what they do. It goes back (generally) to the Crusades,
and more recently since around 1800 when Europe started aggressively interfering
in the Middle East. What we're currently seeing is most-likely due to America's
overthrowing the legally elected government of Iran -- fifty years ago.

If you don't understand them, you can't control them. And terrorism is
fundamentally a social/political problem. It's not enough just to round up the
terrorists. You also have to get the countries of the Middle East to work with
you to make sure they can't start their own cells, or move easily from country
to country.

Once that's done, then we can start worrying about "freedom" and "liberty."

The neo-con's belief that bringing democracy (ie, unrestrained capitalism) to
the Middle East will make everything hunky-dorey is hopelessly naive. The world
just doesn't work that way.