“I'm not sure what you think I said, except that what you think I said bears no resemblance to what I said…..”

I was responding to this quote from you:

“Terrorists generally are people who feel they are powerless to change the status quo in any other way.”

The rest of the comments on that post were my own, not yours (hence no quotation marks.)

“If you believe that their claims are totally unjustified (or if they're so far gone in their hatred that they don't even have any claims), then the only possible response is to fight them, and accept that there will be casualties on both sides along the way.”

I agree completely with this, and I also believe that this exactly describes why we must fight them. The idea is to make sure that their casualties are far greater than ours. I would bet that after Afghanistan and Iraq we have come close to achieving this, but there are a lot of them left.

Regards, Vince