Well, I don't know ... I'm sure there are some to whom Islam is more than a mere justification for killing people, to whom the destruction of the US as it now exists and the submission of the US to Islamic rule (whether under the Sharia or as dhimmi) are orthogonal and to whom only the latter is important. However, it seems equally clear there are others -- bin Laden apparently among them -- who don't primarily care all that much whether the US becomes an Islamic state, so long as America as it exists now, America as a symbol of freedom (more-or-less secular, and more-or-less gender-neutral), ceases to exist. To these latter, destruction of the American way of life may not be a complete victory, but it is a definite and distinct victory.
I was also going to comment that it's not just our support for Isreal that is the cause of their hatred of us but someone beat me to it. :)
Indeed. as noted, I picked out Israel simply because it's the focus of the most intense and unrelenting hatred.
Personally, I can't help but wonder what could be accomplished if all the different Islamic terrorist factions put as much effort into building their own nations up as they now put into trying to tear others down.
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Indeed. as noted, I picked out Israel simply because it's the focus of the most intense and unrelenting hatred.
Personally, I can't help but wonder what could be accomplished if all the different Islamic terrorist factions put as much effort into building their own nations up as they now put into trying to tear others down.