That they can't see (maybe they don't want to?) that our very presence in the middle east is part of what is antagonizing the muslim world???
Um...because it's not true?
The extremists are expansionist.
Did you not catch the 80,000 people in a stadium in Pakistan calling for a global Islamic caliphate? The signs held up showing all the world flags, including the US one, funneling into the Islamic banner?
How about the "scholars" who say that they will only be satisfied when America's Constitution is superseded by Sharia law? That that is the inevitable future of the world, Islam will be all, there is no god but allah, period, no questioning that, no disagreeing, it will happen?
How about the 40% of Muslims in the UK who want Sharia law in predominantly Muslim areas? Who refuse to assimilate? Who cause apostates who convert to other religions to fear death?
Phillipines...the whole southern half is now "that's a beheadin'" country, and missionaries from the north are regularly kidnapped and taken for ransom by Muslim extremists...or just brutally killed. They also kill schoolteachers. Even an ice-cream truck vendor, beheaded. Why? Ask them.
How about elsewhere in Europe? Did Theo Van Gogh do anything to the Middle East that got him killed by a Muslim? Or did he just inadvertently offend a Muslim? How about the Danish cartoonists, with riots calling for them to be beheaded?
In the Middle East, women are not people. Suspected gays are hung. You okay with that?
See, you're mistaking a bloodthirsty death cult called "radical Islam" for a rational culture that can be negotiated with.
And when you do that, it makes them laugh. Because if you appease them, it means you're weak and should be killed. Only strength is respected.
Start thinking 4th century, not 21st, if you want to see what we're facing. As it is now, you're hopefully naive. If you want to lower your own head to the chopping block, go right ahead, but don't expect the rest of us to be there with you. We'll be busy defending Western civilization from a virulently spreading evil that's creeping across the globe, corrupting Islam into a violent deathcult, radicalizing young Muslim males into suicide bombers, and bringing death and suffering wherever it goes.
Go ahead and think you can reason with people who truly think it's right and good to saw someone's head off with a rusty blade while yelling "ALLAHALLAHALLAH". Just don't be surprised if someday the last thing you hear in a "decadent American mall" is someone shouting that their god is the greatest, then an explosion.