It is so black and white to some people, like those who say, even in jest, to just drop a nuke on the middle east and just get on with it.

The US and by extension, most western nations, must bear responsibility  for the actions of previous generations, which has led to the great discontent in the arab world.
Of course I hope that leaders of vision can arise who can help us put these wrongs to rest, once and for all, but to merely contend that arabs are crazy and just want to kill westerners for no reason, is plainly wrong, and does nothing to help uss reconcile the faults of the past, so we can eliminate them from our future.

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Gimme a break. You need to crack a history book and see that the Muslims have been attacking us for 100s of years before the US even existed.

They are believers in a theocratic supremacist doctrine which says we all have to die, or live as slaves under Islamic rule. That is what the cause of the problem is. Not whatever latest Islamic grievance gets manufactured, whether it be cartoons in Denmark, Teddy Bears named Mohammed, Israel, Rumsfeld, any of that - its all bs.