Root Cause of Terrorism

Joseph Farah writes:

The root cause of terrorism is foreign domination and control of Muslim resources.
The root cause of terrorism is the hatred of the Western way of life.
The root cause of terrorism is alienation.
The root cause of terrorism is poverty and illiteracy.
The root cause of terrorism is the moral decadence of the West.
The root cause of terrorism is the West's support for Israel.

Do you know what I think is the root cause of terrorism?
It works.

What do the terrorists want besides killing and terrifying people?

Ultimately, it is very simple. They want the entire world subjugated to Islamic rule and law.

There are only two ways to stop the terrorism:
1) Surrender and live under the domination of Islam.
2) Soundly defeat the Islamic jihad.

You can't talk to it. You can't buy it off. You can't understand it. You can't win it over with compassion. You can't reason with it. You can't negotiate with it. You can't bargain with it. You can't appease it away. You can't wish it away.

In fact, this is an enemy that cannot be seduced by expressions of "tolerance" and gestures of goodwill. It is actually repulsed by such moves – seeing them as weakness to be exploited further and signs that their strategy is winning the day.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53842

In 1964 we elected Lyndon Johnson over Barry Goldwater, which insured for Vietnam a policy of containment rather than victory at any cost. This half-hearted war strategy led to defeat in Southeast Asia and a national weakness that led to Jimmy Carter's pathetic response to the Iran Hostage Crisis.

Now we are in Iraq, not as conquerors, but as the kindly, meddling big brother. While our intentions are noble, our tactics once again show weakness. The militias don't fear us. Iran and Syria manipulate and sabotage with impunity.

As we smile and tiptoe towards capitulation, I wonder if the Western world can survive another American Vietnam-style hangover.

Farah reminds us:

It didn't begin Sept. 11, 2001, or even with the first World Trade Center bombing or the Iranian revolution of 1979.
This is a war President Jefferson fought.
This is a war that led to Christopher Columbus' voyage west and, ultimately, the discovery of America.
This is a war that nearly led to the conquest of Europe before that.
And it may well lead to the conquest of Europe in the 21st century.
As I have said before, it would not be inaccurate to say this conflict has defined world history for the last 1,300 years.

In the 20th century, we witnessed the high cost of appeasement. We saw it with Nazi Germany. We saw it with the Soviet Union. We saw it with Communist China. And, lately, we see it in the Middle East and in the war with jihadism.