London terrorist bombing

In light of the bombing attacks in London this morning, I refer all blog readers to the BBC-produced film, “Dirty War.” It has been shown often on HBO and other cable channels.
The story deals, in docudrama fashion, with the instances that lead to an explosion of a dirty bomb in central London, the British response to the incident and the police attempts to stop it from happening. And yes, the villains are Islamic jihadists - no sugar-coating about responsibility.
I have always hoped, as a human being, as an American and as a member of the Jewish faith, that these perpetrators were SO far out of the mainstream as to be dismissed. But the more life moves forward, the more it happens. Too many people are joining their side and think salvation is achieved through self-destruction with hundreds of explosives wrapped around their waists (or wastes as is the case).
Their ranks are growing and we, in the non-Islamic nations of the world, don’t know why. Even a cancer has a medical reason for spreading. This nation, and others such as Great Britain, has few clues as to why SO many people are gravitating toward such an anti-human way of thinking.
Here is our dilemma as I see it - meeting force with force builds more resentment among those willing to die for their beliefs. Yet permanent extraction (call it what you will) will be the only way to begin to rid the earth of such low-life animals.
The current question is how is this goal best achieved? Many of us think getting bogged down in Iraq is not the answer because the goal of the terrorists was to create the bog. We have no choice but to remain, hence diverting our resources and focus that should be directed to go after the active terrorists.
Here is one thing that few Americans have YET to grasp. People of Arabic/Islamic descent in the Middle East possess incredible patience. We think that means a few weeks; to them, it means several hundred years! They will tell you the desert changes little over such a length of time. They can wait; we normally won’t. When we leave, then conflicts that have existed for centuries will be played out.
This is all part of it, sad to say. We react in flashpoints like the actual bomb explosions. Fundamentalists (on any side) wait for the next time ... and the next time ... and the next time.