Gussie,
This is basically a “Religious” war first, and a Cultural war second. Religion is faith based. In my opinion, logic generally doesn’t apply to questions of Religion (with apologies to Aquinas, Descartes, etc.). The only sense will come with a “reformation” of the Islamic religion similar to what happened to Catholicism in the 16th century. Unfortunately, I don’t see any Lutheran-type leaders among the “moderate” Muslims.

What I find so puzzling about this outrage by Reza and virtually all the other Islamic terrorist actions is the complete lack of logic. We can start with the WTC towers: what did they think that attack would accomplish? Did Reza think driving over 7 randomly selected innocent people would change someone who had disrespect for Islam or muslims? So much of the incredible violence we see in Iraq (by all sides) doesn’t seem to be causally related to any end. Am I missing something here?