As has been stated many, many times before, the conflict with the U.S. is being viewed as a Jihad by the perpetrators. It is not a politically motivated retaliation , but a strategic attack on Western civilization. Any ten year old American kid with some paper mache, a modicum of talent could and 20 minutes free of shiny, brightly colored distractions could come up with a way better effigy than that shit. Listen, if reducing the rubble that makes up Afghanistan to, uh, rubble somehow vindicates the friends and families of the nearly 7,000 lost in the attacks on September 11th, then you and your bullshit causes can eat it. The only time the school bully stopped pushing people around was when some nerd finally snapped and handed them their ass.
Terrorists are a lot like that school bully - only with funnier names and automatic weapons.
A perfect example of this is the whole Bill Mahr debacle. Because rather than lob missiles at us from thousands of miles away, the hijackers flew some planes into some buildings, knowing that they were going to die in the process. Personally, I don't give a fuck what Bill Mahr has to say because I never cared for the guy in the first place. But a lot of people were offended and rightfully so. Fuck you and the Nietzsche compendium you rode in on.