[CaptainCrunch]

I think that we tend to forget that Radical Islam is just as much a political movement as it is a facist based religious movement.

And radical Islamists were blowing up planes and killing people long before the Gulf Wars, what's accelerated the movement is American and British involvement in the middle east.

But lets be honest, Osama Bin Laden was willing to sacrifice Afghanistan and his allies there for a political aim and not a religious aim. Remember that the American's were invited into the holy land's and Kuwait by the governments there, they didn't invade.

The American's in my mind were justified to go into Afghanistan after 9/11 since Afghanistan was at the time the heart land of the Al Queda movement before it moved more firmly into Pakistan, however the American's thought they could buy an ally in Pakistan (The enemy of my enemy is my friend) and contain Al Queda there.

In terms of Iraq, it was a stupid war, however Iraq at the time really was not considered to be a hard core Muslim nation, so the thinking was probably that the radical Islamics would not rush into that battlefield, it was a massive mis-calculation.

But the war of the radical sects of Islam sprang out when the relgion split into its various segments, and the war on America really started with the rhetoric of Khomeni in Iran after their takeover, btw another blunder by American Intelligence (Don't worry Mr President, Khomeni is devoutly religious and practically a saint, we can work with them)

There is truth to a large percentage of terrorist acts in the world being perpetrated by Islam, however it is radical islam based on the political aims of a powerful few who take advantage of the il educated, the stupid, the gulliable, the desparate and the evil.

However radical Islam is not a problem that can be well and truly solved by the West, that problem has to be solved by the Islamic community and the Islamic governments who now also find themselves at war with the radicals.