"Say that complex of psychological forces Q is _always_ necessary for someone to be a terrorist; but like a gene that only gets expressed under given environmental conditions, that motivation will seldom if ever get expressed except under certain conditions, and one necessary condition, it seems, is the presence of a dramatic suppression of some nationality with which the potential terrorist may identify him/herself (whether or not he/she is a member of that nationality)."
Right. But as I suspect you know, it's still not clear on such a view that the occupation of Iraq had any causal role in the London bombings.
Don't worry, though. I've read the Iraqi insurgents are receiving some terrific training in terrorism while fighting enemy forces (e.g. US solidiers, collaborators, children in search of candy), and if they come westward and strike (a prospect the CIA is taking seriously), Remick will be right when he insists on the existence of a direct causal link between the atrocities they inflict and the occupation.
-- Luke