Reply #3: Simplicity rules.

[CanuckAmok]

If you have the stomach to listen to Bush's statements on a regular basis, you will notice it's patently obvious that he and his administration have no clear idea why "they hate us". Eithr that, or they *do* know, but don't want the Americal Public to know.

Example: he says the root cause of the problem in the Hezbollah/Israel conflict is... "Hezbollah".

Hezbollah was apparently created in a spontaneous cosmic event of hatred, and began waging war on everybody.

See, "root cause" means the *source* of an issue. "Ground Zero", if you will.

There's never any public analysis of the factors which cause groups like Hezbollah, the IRA, etc to come into existence in the first place.

Analysis might put Western (US) foreign policy in a bad light, so it's best to just not go there.

"Hezbollah".

"Osama Bin Laden"

"Saddam Hussein"

"North Korea"

"Gays"

"Anti-Lifers"

"Fidel Castro"

They are the root causes of all the evil and suffering in the world. They sort-of just appeared in a puff of smoke. Find something simple to represent evil, so "good" can be represented as an equally simple opposition.

Maybe God created them to test us.


To quote Pappy Bush: "What we are looking at here is Good versus Evil, Right versus Wrong."

See? It's simple!

Now stop asking so many questions. Sheesh.