While I can understand extremist Arab argument (not killing) for wanting US influence out of the Middle East, why dont they look towards their own govt as to why they live in poverty and are oppressed. The Middle East is just one totalitarian regime after the other who keep their people poor and oppressed and use their propaganda machine to incite hatred towards and blame Israel and the West for their woes. By God, the Arab world rakes in trillions of $'s in oil profits and yet the common Arab in the Middle East wants to continually blame the West for ALL their problems??!!!

It's all Bush's fault. he's stupid.

He says "some person can set up a web site in a basement and claim whatever he wants". This same comment can be made of some moron with a magazine issue.Let alone one seeking recruits,stupid recruits.

Leo's comments shows he has no idea of the subject or their mind set. These are a viscous people, they are not motivated by the same thoughts as Americans. That is the foolishness of the P.C. thinking,we are all alike and have the same motivations.They wish to dominate because the believe in their cause they have a belief beyond themselves, something Securalists can't even begin to understand.

Re: Leo and John C.'s comments

It's amazing that Americans still don't understand that a large part of why they hate us is that we keep all those middle eastern dictatorships in power. The Saudi Royal family wouldn't last a year without us. This is why they hate us and this is why almost no one in the middle east believe's statements by Bush and Rice about bringing democracy to the middle east.

There is a book entitled, 'Imperial Ablibis' by Stephen R. Shalom. It poses an interesting view of the U.S. involvement in Middle Eastern affairs.

If there was no oil in saudi arabia none of this would be happening..blame the multi-national oil gangs for what goes on there..bush is only a puppet..out in 2 more years this will go on unless armageddon comes first..

John and Mike G-

Sorry you couldnt catch the point I was making. The Middle East overwhelmingly lives in poverty, except for their leaders and elite. Why is that with all the oil money brought in by the Saudi's, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Iran?? Their govt's do not spread the wealth among their nations, keeping their citizens living in the most dire circumstances. Take Saudi Arabia, where some of the richest few live while others eat once a week. When you are living in a rubble and dont have any hope for the future, why not turn to extremism?! You tend to think it is only simple brainwashing of moderates by radicals. The radicals would have a lot harder time gaining recruits were the economic conditions of the common, traditional Arab much better than they are. Try looking at the Middle East from all the angles.

Only when Christians realize that radical Islam is committed to destroying them and that apathy and appeasement only enhances their jihad,will conditions change. I hear very little from the pulpit, the Christian's apathy is their Waterloo. The "Onward Christian Soldiers" dictum is only history.

Mike G does not know a thing about the middle east and Islam. Islam is on a push to finish what they started in 640 A.D. Mike G unless you convert, pay jazira, you will be an unbeliever and subject to be killed where ever and whenever. They are not so poor in the middle east. They don't hate us because of their misery. They would be poor if they did not have oil to sell. It is all they produce. Not any other major industry. We have helped make them rich. They hate us because we are infidels and we have a say in the world at large. And why not, we give more aid to countries that have disasters than any other. We are working on cures for cancer and aids. Are they? No! What medical miracles have they ever produced in the last 1000 years. Zip. Oh, I did hear that Iran was going to announce a cure for aids today. Herbal. Do you believe? What! No announcment, humm maybe it didn't work.