tarheel, I appreciate your concern for your country. Everyone else is equally concerned, I assure you, including people in other countries. Most of the people in the other countries think that yours has been taken over by a criminal administration that is launching illegal wars.

Could it be that you're backing the wrong side? Consider that it is always a possibility.

You assert that the USA is "the greatest country in the world". How would you feel to hear a Frenchman assert that France is the greatest country in the world? Or a Canadian assert that Canada is the greatest country in the world? Or a Russian? Or a Chinese? They're all great countries in one respect or another. You have to remember how it sounds to people in other countries who are also proud of their own country and believe in it when you say that the USA is "the greatest country in the world". There IS no greatest country in the world. Never was, never will be. We are equals before God, tarheel.

You mention that a lot of people want to move to the USA. True. But did you know that of all the G8 nations, Canada is the one growing the fastest from immigration? Per capita, tarheel, we are more popular with immigrants than the USA is. Maybe that's because we are better liked in the world, it's safer here, and we have free medicare. Consider the possibility that not everyone thinks the USA is the ultimate and best place to move to.

You are worried about terrorists. Well, you should be! When a huge superpower sends its corporate hitmen all over the world and sends its army in and invades people who won't do what its business community wants, then you can expect a terrorist response to that. Did you think that the terrorists just appeared suddenly for no reason other than that they are "evil" or that they are "religious fanatics"? You are mistaken. They appeared directly because of the actions of American business people and the USA armed forces overseas.

They believe they are defending their homelands and their ways of life.

You're just backing the wrong horse, my friend, that's all. You're on the wrong side, but you don't realize it. Your government is the biggest terrorist on the face of the Earth right now. You're in the same frustrating and troubling position as a loyal, patriotic German or Japanese soldier would have been in in 1944. The side you're backing is NOT defending the American way of life, it's betraying it.

But, hey, do I expect you to believe that??? Naw....

Go ahead and be concerned, but don't imagine that the rest of us aren't equally concerned.