Reply #23: I don't take issue with your rejection of the 'hate us for our freedoms' thing

[RZM]

Although I do think the perceived permissiveness of Western society in general is a grievance of the jihadists, though only one relatively minor reason of many that they don't like us. My issue was with your assertion that the US doesn't score all that high on indices of freedom. The US does score pretty well . . . not #1 in the world . . . but not too bad. It's interesting to look at other Western countries in that index I linked to in the previous posts. A surprising number of Western countries don't have perfect marks in every category.