US waging 'ideological struggle'

BBC NEWS

A "struggle for civilization"? Man, Bush makes me want to puke. What a moron. And he's talking hoping other morons will pick up his message. The scary thing is that a whole bunch of idiots who fall for this could be carried away into something resembling a modern day crusade. Do we need that? I think not.

Instead, why not try to understand what's what makes the terrorists and many non-terrorists around the world angry at the US; then we can do something to solve the problem, which could be either on their side or on the American side. Without understanding of the root cause of the problem we wouldn't really know where to implement the solution, would we?

Simply assuming that Americans are intrinsically good just because they're Christians and democratic... uhhh? And whoever is against America is evil no matter what... double uhhh?

In my humble opinion one of the most important reasons for this anger seen in the Arab world against the US is the US' unconditional support of Israel, even in times it's glaringly clear that Israel is doing wrong. This long history of one sidedness... wouldn't that create some degree of hurt feelings?

For example, we don't know for sure Iran really is developing nuclear weapons. Yet:
1. Israel has nuclear weapons. Oh, but Israel is a democracy so it's okay for them to have them?
2. Pakistan has nuclear weapons too, it is not a democracy, and the US is not complaining. Oh, but Pakistan is helping in the "war on terror", so it's better that freedom loving America supports the Pakistani dictatorship.
3. China is not a democracy either and has a much larger and proven nuclear arsenal, yet did anybody say anything?
4. North Korea has declared it's developing nuclear weapons and it's the proven brat of the neighborhood, yet there's not nearly as much fuss about it.

After reading the above points with a cool head, does that sound like an even handed approach to the Middle East?

And how about the lastest war between Israel and Hezbollah, in which the US and Britain refused to call for an immediate ceasefire just because "there's no permanent solution just yet"... and in effect saying, let the bombing and killing in Lebanon continue? Try to imagine the same situation happening in Israel or some American state. Can you? Neither can I. Yes, it happened that way because Lebanon is a mostly Muslim country, so who cares, right?

These things have to stop cause they just feed to the anger of people who don't know any better than joining terror organizations to fight against these injustices.