Bush addresses the world- Pending War

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The idea that terror attack America because it steps on toes seems shallow. If one dislikes specific (or even broad) national policies there are ways to do so. However I see all terror attacks as essentially acts of war against the state-an attack in ideals, founding principles and instituitons. The 9/11 terrorists saw American liberal democracy as threatening their percieved cultural integrity, so they "invaded" the U.S. If the U.S bent over backwards to ensure popularity among terrorists it's called appeasement.

This really is a war to make the world safe for democracy, in the sense that it eliminates a regime that will actively support attempts to stop its spread and destory its base-a shoddily run one, but that is still the purpose. Those who disagree with it, IMO moslty oppose U.S methods of doing so, but there are always some (a vocal minority) who just don't like liberal-capitalist democracy and do not wish to see active campaigns to preserve it. Note that International ANSWER and its sister organizations are backed not by human rights groups (a very liberal concept), but by Stalinists, who by definition, oppose liberalism and all its variants.