As the New York Post pointed out, the terrorists in the film are "sympathetically depicted as pious heroes" while the Americans are shown as "greedy or homicidal cynics."
Clooney admits in an interview that aired on the Fox News Channel, "They [the terrorists] are, in a way, the most sympathetic."
Clooney claims that it's "important" to depict the suicide bombers in this way "because if you are going to fight a war on terror, which is not a state that you can go and bomb, then you need to understand what it is that creates the people who would do such horrible things, rather than just saying - labeling them as evildoers."
The Left Coast Report wonders if with this line of reasoning we'll be seeing stalkers outside Clooney's mansion being invited in for tea so the actor can understand what it is that makes them leer.