I'd like to comment on something justacruiser said, something that i hear alot, and frankly, i think its time we looked in the mirror. allow me to clarify
"over there, where blind ignorance and propoganda breed terrorists" was a statment made by said member
I'd like to point something out. our government attacked, took over, and has since occupied two countries in less than three years because those countries were, and i quote "rouge nations with weapons of mass destruction and a leader crazy enough to use them"
i'll remind the readers of this thread that the United States produces more chemical and biological weapons than any other nation, has larger stockpiles of nuclear weapons than any other nation, and on top of things has a larger military than any other nation. (note, the united states possesses weapons of mass destruction)
The united states went against the UN and the greater part of the worlds will, and unilaterally (read: rougely) attacked a country that would not have been able to repell an invasion by the girl scouts. The united States, in it "with us or against us" policy, made itself a rouge nation.
The pentagon, with assistance from donald rumsfield and the CIA began developing what is called a "tactical nuke" or a "bunker buster nuke" specifically for the purpose of fighting in Iraq, and the pentagon actually, very seriously considered the use of these tactical nukes in Iraq. The US is also the only nation to ever drop a nuclear weapon on an enemy.
so please note, we as a nation fit the very profile of what we claim to be fighting. To simply dismiss terrorism as a problem of "those people over there" is to be ridiculously ignorant. violence is not something that America is seeking to eliminate in the world, it is something America propigates.
lets not forget that the american military could be clasified as the largest terrorist organization in the world.
lets also not forget that the US funded and currently funds known terrorist organization. must i remind you who gave osama bin laden all his weapons and training?
take a look in the mirror son.