"If we don't work to understand why people hate us, and fight future potential terrorists with words, diplomacy, and negotiations, then we'll just create the next Bin Laden."

Al,

That's why I made a distinction between evil and hatred the first sentence in my post.

Murderous hatred is almost indistinguishable from evil, but reasonable people have the ability and duty to try to bring a halt to it. At the very least, they may have the ability to stop, or at least slow the passing of murderous hatred on from generation to generation.

Hatred due to ingnorance or indoctrination can also often be handled in a manner that doesn't involve nations going to war with each other. I believe that to be more true today than ever, given that the global community has shrunk in size due to technology to the point that, unless you live in an area so remote or primative that communications with the rest of the world are still non-existant (or totally controlled by a dictator or tyrant,) there are people who know what else there is on this planet, outside of their own backyards, in expotentially increasing numbers.

Bin Laden is evil. He doesn't just hate. al-Qaeda is evil, they don't just hate. Hitler was evil. He didn't just hate.

Bob