SRS: you are DEAD wrong. I bought the 9/11 Commission's Report the day it was available at Barnes and Noble, and I have read it. It appears to me that you are getting YOUR information from the media rather than from the official source. Listening to the testimony does not provide you the whole story.

But what matter. You are one of the principal USA bashers here on the Mudcat come what may. If something goes wrong in the world, no doubt about it, Americans should look in the mirror because it is WE who have caused it.

Yet, when other countries turn for help when they need it, where do they turn to? And who provides it? The American people.

And the poster is right. No one appointed the US world police. But one question: when policing becomes necessary, who is going to do it if the US doesn't?

DougR