This excerpt is from an article I just read at the Center For Defense Information, an organization consisting of mostly SENIOR retired US military officers. While the rhetoric of "anonymous" and Churchill vary, the crux of their reasoning is very similar.
Finally, Barnett's analysis falls into the trap of thinking that terrorists in the Gap attack the West for what it is and what it thinks. However, as demonstrated in the book Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror by Anonymous (a twenty-three-year CIA veteran), America is hated and attacked for what it does-that is, the policies it pursues that impact the Islamic world, such as its support for apostate, corrupt, and tyrannical Muslim governments. He notes that "the Islamic World is not so offended by our democratic system of politics, guaranties of personal rights and civil liberties, and separation of church and state that it is willing to wage war against overwhelming odds to stop America from voting, speaking freely, and praying or not, as they wish."http://www.cdi.org/program/document.cfm?DocumentID=2866&from_page=../index.cfm