Remember when the BBC and CNN interviewed Bin Laden in the 90s and he used the opportunity to ramble on incessantly about why he hates the U.S.?Interesting take on it. I'm gonna stick with "they're sick of U.S. intervention".
...he talked about our government's foreign policy for over an hour. He didn't mention "hating us for our freedom" or "Christianity" or "because they exist" once. But if you ask the average American "why do terrorists hate the U.S.?" what are they gonna tell you?
It's not ignorance - it's arrogance to think the "radical muslim middle east will always want to make stabs at us because of what we symbolize". Nothing symbolic about it. It's reactionary.