[patriciaruth]

Whoever was top dog would come in for the envy and disrespect treatment such as we get from Europeans, but the acts of terrorism are different. It is both our top dog status AND our permissive culture that has revolted the Islamic fundamentalists. If we were only one or the other it wouldn't matter, but that we not only have a permissive culture but also the power that makes that culture pervasive around the world, making inroads into the sanctity of their male dominated, religiously intolerant culture.
It is not America's support for Israel nor America's thirst for their oil that upsets them half as much as feminism and sexual permissiveness....in short, liberalism and Hollywood.
Now we patriots who don't like liberalism and Hollywood have to support sending our servicemen and women out to die in order to make the world safe for liberalism and Hollywood. What irony.

[Robert357]

that culture pervasive around the world, making inroads into the sanctity of their male dominated, religiously intolerant culture. It is not America's support for Israel nor America's thirst for their oil that upsets them half as much as feminism and sexual permissiveness....in short, liberalism and Hollywood.

I think that you are on the right track with your comments both at to our culture being what scares the heck out of them and us conservatives who will need to fight them so the liberal culture can be sold in their countries.

[Theresa]

"Now we patriots who don't like liberalism and Hollywood have to support sending our servicemen and women out to die in order to make the world safe for liberalism and Hollywood. What irony. "

There's truth to this. But Hollywood and liberalism thrive here because we have a form of government that allows for freedom of expression and thought. Thus we produce a Larry Flynt and a Billy Graham.