Brother Timothy made a good start.

The point to be made is simply there are a lot of scary people out there. We have a nation, a culture, a society that has done quite well for itself. We tend to make others jealous of us, and when we are arrogant towards others, resentment is the conclusion.

The Confederate Hammerheads started in Dallas, Tx. as an outgrowth of skinheads, KKK wannabees and other malcontents looking for some groups or some thing to blame their troubles on. This organization, thanks to the internet, has grown and become international in scope with over 2,000 members. Conditions are ripe, world-wide for trouble.

Unless the US directs its focus on defusing the hatred by intelligent use of propaganda, media, expansion of our culture then we will have to resort to our military, as this administration is doing.

One of the first things taught at the Naval Academy was Karl Von Clausewitcz's " war is the continuation of politics by other means." The corollary being all war is the result of political failure. There is always a better way--for the military, for the country, for everybody but the mountebanks and industrialist that profit from war.

If this administration put out an effort to sell America; spend the money to educate the world on what we do right and what we do well, America could be that shinning city on the hill, that other nation states would want to emulate. If you believe in free markets you have to believe that comparative advantage has a tautalogical truth to it and others would want to copy our system if they thought it actually was good and worked.

Instead, our leadership has embarked on a path the demonize the enemy, polarize those not in the fray, and push American belligerent arrogance. Bad choice, bad administration, bad politics.