Actually RangerSteve I think we cross posted in both senses of the word. Anger is not what is needed and I really shouldn't have let mine out like that.

But it does indicate that understanding the terorists is not really all that difficult. Many patriots in many countries have expressed their willingness to die for their country. Add that to labelling and dehumanising someone as "the other" and it becomes very easy to introduce atrocities into your actions. This has happened all over the world at different times. Muslim groups in North America are scared, with reason, of the actions of people who will label them as "other" and will justify a personal atrocity on the basis of this other immense one.