<Another way to fight back is to understand what drives them.

We do understand what drives them. It isn't poverty: many terrorist masterminds are quite wealthy, and Hussein certainly isn't missing any meals. It's the desire to destroy anyone they do not see as part of their worldview. There is no compromise with someone who wants you extinct.

The job now is defending ourselves and eliminating the threat.

They are humans ready to go to such extremes. Humans grow up, earn a living, have children, responsibilities; same in the muslim countries.

They grow up, except for the children who are talked into strapping bombs around their waists and blowing up other children.