It seems like the perfect metaphor for all that is "winning hearts and minds". Muslims don't blow themselves up because they're crazy. They blow themselves up because they're living in a dream world, and in their dream world, they're getting 70 virgins.
It's all about what happens when a dream becomes more real to you than the real world. We can't win them over with material incentives because they're not willing to accept real world reality. We can only pay them in dream world currency, and folks like Osama have the monopoly on that.