Somebody wanna put this in the right forum, please?.....I clicked on "War on Terror", but of course it got misdirected. thanks.

America is the biggest threat to world peace, just ask any other country, including 'allies'. Ah, but then Americans don't give a **** about other country's opinions, do they?

And yes, this is in the wrong forum   

Seeing as how Mr. George Bush and his fellow conservatives like Mr. Beck don't exactly exemplify 'Christian' ideals, I don't think anyone in that camp is in a place to judge another faith, or to dismiss their outrage.

Glenn Beck is a conservative. But about as controversial as an enema! Seems that it is not Glenn that has an agenda! But those who hide behind the skirts of terrorists.

America is the biggest threat to world peace, just ask any other country, including 'allies'. Ah, but then Americans don't give a **** about other country's opinions, do they?

I didn't know countries had opinions. Just people. 

I've always had the view that if some "country" really was against something they would express it through sanctions (at the very least) or threat of force.

I mean, if the United States is really the biggest threat to world peace, then that begs the question -- what should the world do about it? I mean, heck, shouldn't the world be building up their military power and preparing to coordinate their efforts to put a stop to the world's biggest threat to peace?

I'm American but I don't lie awake at night think about my country dominating the world. I don't believe most Americans do...we think about work, home, children and simply living from day to day...just like I suspect most others in the world do whether they be Arab, British, Russian, Chinese, whatever. I think there's a perception problem worldwide whereby we equate a country's people by their government's political policies. I believe the last polls I looked at showed that approx. 70% of the American people were against the war in Iraq and although we vote for those who would make decisions based on the "people's will", we have no guarantees once they're elected they'll keep their promises or whether they'll be guided by lobbyists, the party line or whatever. So many variables, idiologies, factors, politics and policies not controlled by the common man...it just seems unfair to judge a group of people by the actions of a few...

it just seems unfair to judge a group of people by the actions of a few

Strangely, that's exactly what Muslims are saying...   

"What they're really afraid of, in my opinion, is that the American people will start to see them as the threat they are, rather than the simple, peaceful people the MSM snaitizes them to be."

Glen Beck on Islam:

"My message is clear: Islam is a peaceful religion for over 90 percent of the world's Muslims," he said. "I have urged viewers repeatedly to understand this, while asking all of the proud, peaceful Muslims here in America to take a more visible role in our fight against those who make a mockery of the Quran. I also make airtime available, at any time, to any Muslim organization to help reinforce this realistic, peaceful view of Islam."

Someone like Rightwinger, who characterizes Islam as a "cancer", would have a hard time agreeing with Beck, I would imagine. Or George Bush, or any other mainstream person without a Tourette's-like need to scapegoat entire religions and peaceful minorities to validate their inner demons. Rightwinger asked me the other day, when I talk with Muslims picking up their kids from school, whether or not I wonder what their husbands are making in their basement workshops.

Yep, so, so, so much like the people he's writing AGAINST. For them it's the Jews, and for him it is Muslims. Your mirrors on the other extreme end are happy that you are upset, too, Rightwinger. Every dart they throw catches you right between the eyes, and you dance to every tune they play.

Strangely, that's exactly what Muslims are saying...

And with enough persecution, the few can easily become the majority...

There's a town called Hilla in Iraq...troops came and went through it everyday on patrol...generally, the people were kind and peaceful, and we were welcome there, and children would wave...one day, no one was in sight, and it was eerily quiet...shooters had been watching, and decided to round up the "friendlies" and kill them all (including 14 children) for their lack of animosity towards our us...yes, I said lack of animosity! They didn't hate us enough...Islam is NOT violent, but people can be, especially when they are poor, uneducated, unemployed, hungry, and fearful. This was all 3 years ago...now one dashes through as fast as possible...

The jewish/palistinian question is NOT the problem of the Middle East, just a good excuse by leaders to explain off their own failures.

Few of our troops want to be in Iraq, but most DO want to help these people...only their leaders fail them. Politicians lie the same in Iraq as they do in America...difference being that here, our politicians do not fear for the life of their families and themselves everytime they leave their home...a situation that does NOT lend itself to getting much constructive work done.

If you think that it's difficult to figure out the whole Shi'ite/Sunni conflict from here, try having to do it crouching behind a wall in a courtyard in An Najaf...it doesn't make sense, and you don't really care...you just wanna get home, same as most of the Iraqis.

We have the same kind of violent, hate filled people here in the USA as the Iraqi people do...we just don't have the desperation...

I have long harbored a suspicion that there is a direct correlation between global violence and location...the hotter it is, the more violence there is...throughout history. I'd be curious to see some research put into that, and what it stats it would find..

"They didn't hate us enough...Islam is NOT violent, but people can be, especially when they are poor, uneducated, unemployed, hungry, and fearful."

Hear, hear.

I suppose there's a fine line between liberator and invader to begin with without those horrible conditions making that line just a little smaller everyday.

interesting reading... and totally 100% agree with #11 & #12

I have long harbored a suspicion that there is a direct correlation between global violence and location...the hotter it is, the more violence there is...throughout history. I'd be curious to see some research put into that, and what it stats it would find..

I have long thought climate influences MANY aspects of a civilisation,from how it behaves to how it progresses.

A people that live in paradise have no need to advance technologically.If conditions are too harsh,they spend too much effort just surviving.(and grouchy)