The video shows the 9/11 Commission Hearing where the question “What motivated them to do it?” was finally asked. See FBI Special Agent Fitzgerald explain the motive.

There are so many valid criticisms that can and should be amplified and levied at the 9/11 commission. Its politicized membership; its equally politicized findings and recommendations, not least of which led to the creation of the bloated, moribund Dept. of Homeland Security.

More troubling than wasting good paper magnifying this minor issue, is that it subtly suggests that the U.S. could and, perhaps, should appease al Qaida by a shift in American foreign policy. The futility of such appeasement is obvious to any regular Joe who has seen Muslims frothing with murderous rage incited by mere newspaper cartoons. More evidence can be found in the case of Spain, which upon being attacked on the eve of elections, capitulated and elected a socialist government that promptly withdrew its troops from Iraq. Al Qaida praised the Spanish people for their “wisdom” then began planning another terrorist attack on Spanish soil. (Lesson: you can’t negotiate with terrorists.)

Just the other day al Qaida released a video featuring a new star, Adam Gagahn, a former heavy metal music fan from California. Now he shares top billing with al-Zawahiri. His message to infidels: convert to Islam or die. Reduced to its lowest common denominator, that’s what this war is all about. Unfortunately, policy wonks in government and in policy think tanks haven’t yet figured that out.

The book, “Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission” does reveal what those studying this issue have suspected, that some commissioners on the 9/11 Commission argued against and stopped the Commission from making a recommendation about the main motive for the 9/11 attacks: US support of Israel.

From the 9/11 Commission:

MR. HAMILTON: … But what have you found out about why these men did what they did? What motivated them to do it?

MR. FITZGERALD: I believe they feel a sense of outrage against the United States. They identify with the Palestinian problem, they identify with people who oppose repressive regimes, and I believe they tend to focus their anger on the United States as to what would motivate a young man to sacrifice his rights, to, really, go to that extraordinary next step to do that.

Those facts aside, let's look at your assertion that if we moderated or withdrew our support for Israel, the terrorists would not have been such awful meanies. Maybe they would have attacked only one tower of the WTC or maybe they would have simply shot at workers arriving to work at the Pentagon instead of trying to obliterate them with a jetliner.

The number one reason that Islamic fascists attacked, and continue to attack us is that Jews and Americans and the majority (for the timebeing) of Europeans and Asians are not Muslims. I'm not aware that Bali, Russia, Spain, Turkey or the Philipines are ardent supporters of Israel, yet they have all been attacked by Muslim terrorists too.

Osama stated very clearly in one of his audio tapes that if Americans would simply convert to Islam, his beef with us would be over. Ivan, your flimsy plan of appeasment would fail and it would throw a loyal American ally under the bus.  (Note:  This comment was edited for unacceptable language)

Get real. We’re hated in a lot more places than the middle east, places where we haven’t over run nations and slaughtered hordes of innocent civilians even. That’s just what you get when you oppose violent totalitarian states who want to spread their doctrine through domination and intimidation. If only we’d have just left Communist Russia alone, we’d have never had to spend all that money on the arms race, and all the other Communist regimes, like Castro’s Cuba for example, would have just left us alone. Because they just want to live in peace and harmony – just like us.