We could debate the answer to this question from now to enternity and never make any progress. If you want to get to the source of the problem, and dare I say, solve it, you need to ask why they attack us.

I think it is pretty obvious that they hate us. I think it is also pretty obvious that based on the generations of people that been subjected to the indoctrination that we are the source of all evil, the people are bound to hate us. They have propaganda down to an art, and most people their have a hard time distinguishing between what is reality and what is fiction. They have cartoons that depict their heroes as being suicide bombers, while our children's cartoons are little sponges that wear pants.

We have an ideology that is direct contradication, and to the fanatical branches, there is absolutely no compromise.

This is all fairly obvious, however, I don't care if they hate us. I don't care what they teach their children. I don't care about their ideology. Why they hate us doesn't really matter from my point of view. We will not make them love us, so we shouldn't even try.

The question to be answered here is "Why do they attack us?". People hate each other each and every day, yet they aren't starting wars and killing each other because of it. I would even offer that wars are not fought over hate. Wars are fought to further political agendas.

The problem here is that, politically, we do the things in which they accuse us of. They say that we occupy their countries, we do. They say that our corporations with help from our government exploit their resources, they do (although I will add that their own leaders exploit it as well). They claim that we want to change the way they want to live, we invade their country to westernize them.

The list really goes on and on. In my opinion, with a change of our foreign policy, they would still hate us, but they would hate us from afar. Without giving them the political reasons to attack us, I doubt the leaders calls for suicide missions would not fall on deaf ears. We should tend to ourselves, leave them alone, and make sure that they understand that if they ever act on their hate towards us, we will make the consequences so gruesome that they would not even think about attacking us. After all, I don't believe their leaders believe what they tell their people. They use their propaganda to gain support. The leaders will act in their own self interests of maintaining power, and if they thought that being involved with an attack on this country would undermine that, they would be hesitant.

At any rate, this is my opinion on this situation.