on the Arab street , it feeds and fuels their hatred and their desire to kill themselves to take out Americans . In other words , the death , carnage , and destruction the U.S. invasion was causing was generating huge amounts of anti - American hatred and a desire to bring violence to Americans , even if it meant sacrificing lives to accomplish that . But the U.S. media never showed any of that , so Americans had no idea it existed , and were thus incapable of understanding why people were eager to do violence to Americans .