Dear Editor,
In "From Captive To Suicide Bomber" (Feb. 22, 2009), the story of a released Taliban fighter who goes on to blow himself up murdering 13 Iraqi soldiers, The Washington Post asks "Did Guantanamo propel him to do it?" No, it was his release that did it.
The idea that it is something that we do that makes Fundamentalist Muslims hate us and want to kill us is a futile and naive approach to understanding the current world-wide war that exists against the West. Terrorist attacks like September 11, 2001 were not caused by an aggrieved people, and looking inward is not going to help us figure out why this war is going on, nor in defeating our opponents. We must come to the realization that it is the brainwashing - the inculcation of a venomous hatred of the West and Western values - in full throttle in parts of the Muslim world - that is the root cause of what is going on today.
Michael Berenhaus
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