Islamicists hate us for who we are, not what we do – Victor Davis Hanson answers the question “Why do they hate us?”

Here’s the money quote:

The United States has adopted a rational strategy against Islamic fascism: kill the terrorists, remove illegitimate regimes that aid the extremists, foster democracies in their places and alter American policy from tolerance of the corrupt status quo to calls for reform. Yet we cannot finish the Islamicists’ war unless we understand why they started it. For that answer, look at who Americans are and what we represent – not at what we supposedly have done.