Thank you for that observation tiptup! I get very annoyed with all these "ashamed to be an American" people. There are a lot of things shameful about America, but by saying I am ashamed to be an American, you are tossing all the rest of the American people into that very same bowl of shame. You could be ashamed of your government, but stop dising America as a whole. I agree, there was plenty of provacation, and plenty of right to attack. Another thing that annoys me is how everybody in America seems to think of the universe as this:

America | Rest of the world

There isn't such a gap, the rest of the world is right beyond the door whether you want to admit it or not. The problems in the rest of the world are our problems too, and everything one of us does effects the rest. China wants nuclear weapons? Well, we have the right they have the right, right? After all they live in a different universe than us! If Iraq wants WMDs, let em have em! They have every right to them as we do! After all they live in a different universe than us! Wake the hell up!