You said: "Frankly, these strikes against us are because of our FOREIGN POLICY......in retribution for our arrogance and domination in countries we chose to use to further our own power."

I must disagree. These militants hate everything about YOU. No amount of peaceful discussion will ever make them change. They hate America. They want YOUR children to go to bed as crying orphans because YOU are dead. They will then bomb the orphanage to rub salt in the wound.

I refuse to try to understand the mentality of their "Desperation". In fact I don't think they are desperate at all. They are simply consumed by hatred.

We will and we must take a more influential role in the middle east. The middle east has proven its own inability to handle her affairs.