While I accept that the US is currently a country that bullies and coerces other countries politically and economically, and that preemptive war is morally unjustifiable, I would also chip in that Canada is not a target of terrorism because it is a marginal, usually symbolic, player in geopolitics.

As an aside, I'm not sure that my three BC sisters above know (maybe some do) that Big Mick saw some of the worst that the Vietnam conflict had to offer. (There's a thread that describes it in part.) I know all three of you are sincere in your writings, and I would never suggest sugar-coating substantive debate-- I'm not even saying that its directly relevant --I'm just . . . tossing in a tidbit that you might consider useful.