their foreign policies, their role in the world and ask themselves "why do they hate us"?

The latest bombing of a French oil tanker near Yemen shows the French policy is clearly deeply flawed, and is causing the oppressed people of the world to rise up and strike back.

Similarly, a car bomb exploded in Helsinki yesterday, the second since July 16.

Obviously, the Finns have some soul searching to do as well. Who would hate the Finns? I don't know, but for someone to commit a suicide bombing in Helsinki, he must have a legitimate beef.

The Indonesian imperialists should now be asking themselves "why do they hate us", as they dig the bodies of almost 200 people from the ruins of a nightclub.

Perhaps Indonesia, like the US, French and Finns, should re-examine its foreign policy in view of the incredible hatred it has engendered.

And perhaps its time for all of us to realize that people and groups opperate on many different levels, in many different directions. And that peoples stereotype one party leader as a representation of an entire nation.

That instead of "why do they hate us?" we should be asking, "what did that person do to piss that person off."

Geopolitics are never a broadway musical or a moral play.

Last time I checked, George Bush or Bill Clinton, Exxon or Noam Chomsky were not asking my permission to act. Nor were Afgahnistan, France, New Jersey or Al Queda.

Duh.