Just a difference? I don't consider churches that are not centered around Christ to even be Christian. If your Christmas mass is not centered on Christ then what's the point?
You boys have a economic Empire,
We don't have an empire at all. We just have a country.
His support of terrorist activities was marginal
Marginal? I'm not sure if you saw this but Iraq was involved in training terrorists on how to hijack airplanes. So I would not call it marginal.
Iraq - Al Qaeda
Iraq had WMDs, refused to allow UN inspectors in, disobeyed numerous UN resolutions and tried to assassinate former President, George W. Bush's father. The last item alone was justification alone to go in but the terrorist and WMD concerns were paramount.
Its interesting to see how another Western, English speaking bloke can have such an opposite view of events, and interpretations of culture. Not a criticism, just an observation.
Frankly, I dont much care about what Dr Williams has to say about stuff, cos he is coming from a religious standpoint and that has no truck with me at all. So for differing reasons, we agree that his comments are irrelevant.
As for the WMD’s and all that, I’m not arguing about that. I can fully understand that this is the real world, and its got some very harsh realities we all need to face up to. Compared to some of his neighbours (most obviously Iran with Hamas and Hezbollah), Saddam’s Iraq was not that great a danger to the world, certainly if we are to go for a state that posed a lethal threat to the UK and US.
As for my point about the US having an economic empire, don’t be so afraid of the term. It means you have influence and stature. All nations eventually lead through to imperial powers, as they try to find markets for their ever growing economies. Its simple stuff, but sometimes you US’ers get a little scared when Empire is mentioned, automatically thinking of the term in a negative context. We British certainly dont view our time as the biggest, greatest, empire the world has ever known in a bad light. It did wonders for our nation, and brought industrial, social, political and ecnomic advanced to all nations under the Crowns dominion.