Roots of terror

This is an explanation, not a justification. What is needed to prevent these attacks against 'us' is rational explanation, not emotional justification. Those who resort to emotional justification, are not interested in fighting terror. Terror breeds terror.

"Many of the people who are drawn to these movements are not people who are looking for some sort of Taliban lifestyle, they're people who are actually motivated because they support some kind of insurgency about the way the West is dealing with the Middle East, and they feel the Middle East is utterly humiliated. The Middle East people are utterly humiliated by the West and the Western policies. And this is the response they seek. It's an appalling response, but I think to understand it, you’ve got to understand it goes a lot further than simply a kind of revulsion against the Western way of life."