[QUOTE=SuperChuck]No fair editing posts while I'm replying...

That's largely a generalization. Your average guy on the street wants to make a decent living, feed his family, raise his kids. It's the leaders and radicals you have to look out for. It's a little like saying everyone south of the Mason-Dixon is racist and in the KKK. That's really a minority, but they're loud...
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I understand what you are saying, but I see it differently. Hatred of different races and religions is rampant in the middle east. Children are educated at home and in schools to hate other cultures even in their own country because they are not of the "God chosen" religion or ethnicity. Our culture downplays religion when it comes to social interaction with others, but in the middle east religion is the driving force of everything they do. And war is not a concept that has never been experienced in their homeland, it is something that has always been a part of their current life or recent history. I think that's what we sometimes fail to understand. I don't believe we can put ourselves in the average Joe's shoes, nor can we expect that they are thinking the same way we are. Hatred of other cultures and races is a normal part of their everyday life, much as the natural (at the time) hatred and resentment that existed between blacks and whites in this country during reconstruction.