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Let's start by saying I'm not a warmonger. I have spent many days of my life protesting war and violence. I do not advocate going into countries with an army to kill civilians. I think 3,000+ dead civilians on 9/11 had nothing to do with an army, but it did have a lot to do with hate. This hate was like a fire and people like Saddam Hussein fanned the flames. Europeans hate Americans, Muslims hate Americans, Africans hate Americans- it just seems the world in general hates Americans. And who do the Americans hate? Themselves it would seem, if you read the newspapers and watch the nightly news. With all this hate in the world it just seems to me, that your argument is moot, in the sense that it really doesn't matter what we as Americans do or don't do because we will be hated anyway. The argument to not invade other countries goes something to the effect that if we don't use our armies, then the world will hate us less. But that didn't stop the hate before, America became a target before it sent any armies anywhere, and it will not stop it in the future. If people everywhere are to live together in peace, then why do they kill? Maybe peace is not the goal. If it is not, then fooling ourselves into believing in peace becomes the lie. If a mans only goal is my death and my only goal is to live, then I cannot appease him, there is no compromise. If the goal becomes kill or be killed, will I die voluntarily? Would you? The basic fact is that people must choose to hate. Once you make that choice, to blame the one you hate for the consequences of that hatred is a fools paradise. I don't want anyone to thank me, and I personally don't care if they hate me or not. I will not fall into that trap, the supreme lie, I choose not to hate.