Haruo, were you responding to my post? I was thinking along the lines of the "war on terror." Bush tried to justify the invasion of Iraq by framing it as a defensive action, which is also how Israel is claiming to be justified in its actions in Gaza. I don't think that that claim could be further from the truth in either situation. Israel and the US are alligned as part of the "war on terror," but in fact the military actions of both create injustice and anger and so create more terrorism, not less. Like Israel, the US is currently occupying land that it has no right, legal or otherwise, to occupy.

Oh, and that last post was mine.