I didn't really mean to provoke a discussion about terrorism, if I did I would have started with something less obscure than immigration. I think that no matter what we do in the next few dozen years, there will be a threat of terrorism from bin Laden's disciples, from the orphaned generation in Iraq, etc. But I definitely agree when you say to prevent it, we need to allow those in other countries the same liberties we have. I won't err in saying that the reason we are hated is because of what we've done recently. It's been compounded recently, but we were messin' with the then docile middle east after WW2, forming arbitrary national borders instead of letting them be tribalists like they want. Rome even occupied israel back in jesus' time. It was the same thing; the big bad west forcing its shit on who they thought were inferior, complacent people.

I really don't know much about jihadist terrorism, but I think that the war they've declared on us might not be mitigated by any immediate diplomatic action on our part. I like to think they are reasonable and that their war on us could be solved by something besides our entire annihilation.