Defeating Terrorism, Step One: Look in the Mirror:

"If Americans are ever going to understand what would motivate people to end their lives in the course of committing gruesomely destructive acts, we'll have to 'step back' from what the mainstream media dishes out to us, and strive for empathy, – try to understand why terrorists believe it's imperative to resist US domination...

We take over and dominate other people's societies. We set up client states in their regions and rely on these client states to house US bases and, as in the case with Israel, to punish neighboring states if they don't submit to US aims. We foster double standards, condemning invasion and occupation when it suits us, (e.g., the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait) and yet undertaking or supporting murderous sanctions, invasions and occupations, while claiming to support and enhance democratic states. The role of the US and its client state, Israel, as occupiers in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine evokes rage and retaliation. Hideous and violent terrorist attacks will continue as long as we insist on taking other people's precious and irreplaceable resources for cut rate prices. We should either begin paying fair prices, or find new ways to live in which we're not so dependent on these resources."