I am so tired of hearing people lament the hatred they says the rest of the world has for America, and how we should look in the mirror and see what everyone else sees. Hate is not a rational emotion, there's no way for us to make fanatic Muslims turn the other cheek. There's no way for us to get the French to suddenly love us. We've already saved their country, but that did not engender any love. The only way that the rest of the world will stop hating us is if we say to them "You are right, we are wrong, here's our sovereignty, have fun with it." I'm not willing to do that. I'm not willing to let anyone else's irrational feelings of hate have an influence on what I feel is right and wrong. The Palestinians don't hate the Jews because of disagreements over territory, they hate because the Jews are Jewish. Suicide bombing is not rational, but the Israelis defending their people to the best of their military ability is rational. Flying airplanes into buildings is not rational, but attacking the people that supported such incidents is. Oppressing the people you rule over and killing citizens for no particular reason is not rational, but taking out a dictator who cares nothing about his people except regarding what they can do to enrich him is rational. The rest of the world needs to look in the mirror and see that they are the ones allowing dissension and death, and letting evils like Saddam to continue.