[freeperfromnj]

My take on the issue is that any group will have bad apples.

Sorry, but it only took 19 of them to take 3,000 lives. After witnessing September 11 first hand, after watching footage of numerous suicide bombings committed by Palestinian muslims and Pakistani muslims killing Christians and Hindus (not to mention what they did to Daniel Pearl) and the horror perpetrated by muslims in the Phillipines I'm just fresh out of tolerance.

[Jake0001]

On the other hand it just took a small airplane crew of Americans to wipe out 100,000 Japanese at Hiroshima.

Bush could decimate the entire region's population with just the simple order to launch some nuclear tipped ICBMs. We have the advantage.

We could obliterate any of those nations easily if we decided not to be discriminatory about what we bombed.

Heck, we subjugated the land of Afghanistan with 25 million people in it with fewer than 25,000 soldiers.

Unlike them, we use our resources and money efficiently and intelligently. We have an economy and currency that dominates the globe (note foreign journalists almost always convert the foreign dollars into equivalent US dollars). They are jealous of our prosperity, good fortune and our inginuity. I bet there isn't a building a quarter the height of the WTC in the entire region.

Those poor saps who look up to the fanatics are deluded into thinking we stole from them, when in fact it was the fanatics who did so (either by direct thievery or by scaring away investment). Those fanatics will one day face a day of reckoning when their followers realize that they had been conned.