Brooks has it right once more. Understanding that, for the most part, the terrorists are bred within an educated group of intelligent, Muslim radicals is a far cry from the earlier reasons we were encouraged to accept. These radical Islamists are not the product of the poor, backward Muslim societies. They have embraced a cause that rails against the modern world. Whatever the reason, They must be eliminated.
"In other words, the conflict between the jihadists and the West is a conflict within the modern, globalized world. The extremists are the sort of utopian rebels modern societies have long produced.
In his book 'Globalized Islam,' the French scholar Olivier Roy points out that today's jihadists have a lot in common with the left-wing extremists of the 1930's and 1960's. Ideologically, Islamic neofundamentalism occupies the same militant space that was once occupied by Marxism. It draws the same sorts of recruits (educated second-generation immigrants, for example), uses some of the same symbols and vilifies some of the same enemies (imperialism and capitalism)."
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