My take is this. We Americans living on borrowed credit at the expense of the rest of the world. The violence comes from the unconscious idea that the note is coming due. If the buck falls,
the fear will grow and violence will escalate.

If we could only find something other than oil money or money in general to worship, we might be able to stem the tide.

Right now, prosperity seems to be tied in with the propaganda ethos about the "American way of life". In the meantime, Bush Administration is trying to unseat a duly elected president in Venezuela,(a repeat of the Pinochet takeover from Allende), bribing Algeria for UN votes (the country who has a history of abuse as bad or worse the Hussein), and muscling Iraq to own the second largest producer of oil in the world now backed by US dollars, stifling dissent and free speech in the name of a bogus "homeland security".

The only true security is to recognize that as a country America can't go it alone without the cooperation of the rest of the world.
The buck can't buy true security. No security? Fear and violence.

Frank Hamilton