let's just leave it at this. the loss of human lives on september 11th, 2001 was a great tragedy. sadly, that's what it took to wake us up to how much our interference in the middle east (especially regarding israel) has caused SOME middle easterners to loathe us (on that note, osama doesn't loathe us for our freedoms as some people *cough* bush *cough* have led us to believe, he hates us because of our interferences there). what we should be doing instead of forcing democracy on them is forge strong, mutual alliances with them. there will always be people who do not like the United States, so let's do ourselves a favor and give them less reason to.