theyre ignorant. and theyve been fed propaganda for years. Admitedly While US foreign policy has sometimes been more expedient than farsighted they did not warrant this kind of an attack and this hatred. The drive for modernization in the middle east and much of the Islamic world has failed over the last 40 years, they see the west getting richer and more powerful so they need someone to blame and who to blame except the last superpower, which is the main exporter of western culture, consumerism etc. THere was an excellent article in last Saturdays Globe and Mail by a (Muslim) Harvard professor that stated exactly that, much of the so called roots of the problem lie in the Islamic world. Ill try to find it. (They of course have seized on the one thing that didnt come out of the west and that is Radical Islam). I dont know where its headed but I can say that an Iranian fellow I shared a house with said that many of the young people in Iran dont care for radical Islam, they just want to live like in the west, and the young in fact are the greatest danger to the Revolutionary guard.