It is not the entire generation who hate us. It is a tiny, vocal and media savy minority.Says who? I saw a Muslim doctor in England punching the sky and exhulting when he heard about 911. How does that fit into the above soundbite?
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are what matter. To that end freedom, democracy and civil rights must be striven for and achieved for there to be any lasting peace in this world. We're talking about following through with a course of action we belive will achieve this result.You're saying that ideals from the US Declaration of Independence are what matter if there is to be peace in this world. If you want to enrage people in the middle east, that's a good start.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
