Why do they hate us?

You see liberals agonizing over this question, especially after 9/11.

As with this post, it is a matter of manhood, or what is conceived as manhood.  Taking the prison rape thinking as an example, the rapist believes he is more a man than his victim.  He thinks of the submissive one, or the one taken by force, as less a man, or even a woman.  It is in his mind, but that has little to do with objective reality.

With these Islamic terrorists like Osama bin Laden, they think that the West is inferior.  If you please, do recall the strong-horse v. weak-horse argument that he made.  Thus, men here in the West are said to be less manly than their own men.  So they attack us, believing that the results of their attacks will be successful and we will cringe in front of their supposed superiority.  This could happen this way if the West collectively accepts that judgment, and refuses to fight when attacked.  If the West doesn't submit, it will provoke feelings of hostility and resentment.  For, by that way of thinking, they are the lesser men.

Walter Williams said something to this effect when he was on the Rush Limbaugh show. They attack us because they think we are sissies, or something to that effect.