Try to learn some history on the subject, and you'd probably understand why they're all so pissed. American has been funding middle eastern genocides for years. Saddam Hussien was funded by America, until we suddenly decided to impose democracy on them. America (and the UK) continuously support Isreal.

What we need to do to deal with radical Islam is this... stop butting in. Stop funding them. Stop attacking them. Just leave them alone and let them get on with it. Stop mindlessly supporting Isreal. Stop telling people they can't have nuclear technology when we have thousands of nuclear weapons ready to rock and roll at any given notice. Has it ever occured to you that we support Isreal, we're stocked with nukes, and we keep going to war with middle eastern countries to impose OUR way of life onto them? Just because we think (rightly) that our way of doing things is beter doesn't give us the right to impose it on others. Let them deal with their own issues.

If I was in their situation, I'd be pretty ticked off too.

By the way, I don't in any way sympathise with terrorism, or islam for that matter. The world would be a much better place with Islam (and religion in general). BUT what I do hate it the western world talking about middle eastern and islamic countries like they're all mentalists hell bent on destroying us. Sure, they have their share of nutters, but so does everywhere else.

Anyway, as a I said before. The best way to deal with radical islam is leave them the crap alone, stop bossing them about, and let them get on with it.

It's not the human life that they do not value, it's what exists inside of the humans. An alien value system, that even you show a lack of understanding about.

You only saw them kill themselves because you didn't pay attention beforehand (most likely because you have your own life and don't live in the region). It's like an iceberg, you only see the part that sticks out of the water. These 'people who do not value human life' are fighting because they believe that human life should be different, that we are tainting life... why else would they die to kill "innocent" people? They obviously see that your life is corrupt and interfering with theirs, and they are willing to sacrifice their lives to save their way of life... that's not devaluing life, that's the opposite. All you see though, obviously, is your freedom, and then these people coming out of the dark, from places that you don't understand (or care to) and then killing people, but you're missing the part where they kill themselves too. They are heroic, in their minds. They are giving their lives for the same reason a "good" man would stand in front of a bullet for a child... but you don't get it, and call them bad and imagine that they all just crawl out of caves hating freedom.

You are, essentially, making the exact same mistake they are in attacking. You are not understanding that these people have different cultures, different beliefs, and entirely different value systems.

Why no conversation, you ask? I'm not an expert on the middle-east, or US foreign policy, but I'm assuming that people don't resort to sacrificing their lives for a message unless they feel that they have no voice. Why do monks set themselves ablaze as a form of protest?

To say that suicide bombers don't respect human life is a contradiction. Martyrs (for that is how they view themselves) recognize the value of life, as well as the shockwaves produced by extinguishing it. Would crushing daisies produce the same result as blowing up a bus full of people? Probably not, because human lives are so much more valuable than flowers. To have no concept whatsoever of the value of life is to be inhuman. To label your enemies as impossible to understand is to vilify them.

Every human is born with some capacity to reason. Some people are just given the wrong information, or easily swayed by the conviction of others.

I think there would be problems with attempting to rehabilitate from a facility like Guantanamo. One of the methods used in the Saudi program was to reconnect the person with his family, and use their support/disappointment to help them along. Given the years of mistreatment and isolation, it doesn't seem that a rehabilitation program would be effective. How do you convince someone who's been tortured that you now want to help them to broaden their perspectives? How close does "rehabilitation" come to reeducation?