Well of course one reason Israel is uspported by the U.S. is because Isreal is the only country that believes in a democracy relatively the same way that the U.S. does. Aside from any monetary reasons this is one obvious one.

oakley#36

Canada is an interesting country militarily - as history shows - that our country has never sustained a big military - though you might be interested to learn that we played a larger role in both World Wars than the U.S. Sound surprising - well I'm from Canada and it surprised the hell out of me. The first world war is obvious but the second war was a shocker.

Canada does not sustain a military because the entire population of Canada is less than the State of California - and our country is significantly larger than the U.S. In fact if you look at the population mapping Canada looks sorta like Chile (Ie; we all live along the border for the most part in a long strip).

Canada was never a sustain a big military country because basically we were a British colony. When required we would ramp up a large air force, Navy and military and during both wars we had the highest armaments and sopldier to population ratio of any country and the 2nd or 3rd largest airforce and Navy. Counsidering that America had 10 times the population to build a military that large that fast was impressive.

Canada's main role in WW2 was to keep the supply lines open to Britain. We had decrepid boats early on and 15 year out of date war ships that went a full 15 knots slower than what the Germans had - not to mention the U-boats. Without that supply line Britain would have fallen a good 2 years before victory.

The other rather disdainful thing was when our untrained ground forces of 4000 went into Dieppe to the largest slaughter ratio in our history. There were a few hundred Brits and 50 Texas Rangers their to observe. What doid the New York Times say the following day in big bold titling. America and Britain have a succesfful raid on Dieppe.

First it wasn't successful and America had zero involvement in it anyway - but if textbooks are written like those headlines - and headlines and stories are usually bad everywhere in war as the propaganda machines all tried to make themselves look good - but this is why I say we probably habve no real clue what is going on - -- not for years when you can dig the inconsistancies up.

There is no rational reason anyone should want to kill Americans. And the other poster noted a truth if you're the big guy people want to take you down. Of course there is a growing fear and it IS justifiable that absolute power corrupts. And America is about as close to Absolute power as it gets.

Part of that is military but if the whole rest of the world banded together America would be flattened in 24 hours - assuming no nukes. So I don't buy that - but where America does have power is money.

America is attacked from every agenda party some with good reasons some just nutty reasons. But America Wastes the most. It is not unlike Mary Antoinette when people are starving in the streets and they say they need bread to eat - but there is no bread and she just says "let them eat cake" it is a slap in the face to the poor.

In every individual country when the desparity gets too great the serfs will fight back against the rich --- well now that has gone global.

In the Muslim world with their dictators their people have little access to what is really going on and are simply fed what the dictator wants fed. Ohh my friends you have no home and no food because America is stealing it from you - and then they well show pictures of all the fat americans and all the waste (Throwing out food????). Look at those evil Americans.

Of course what the dictator doesn't tell them is that Evil Dictator set the oil price - America didn't fight it, may have grumbled but PAID it. The billions that cam in could have went to building infrastructure, schools, hospitals, agriculture etc. But NO, the Sultan lets his people starve and buys a fleet of Rolls Royce and makes buildings out of gold.

The left wing blames America for everything, the religious nuts blame America, the dictator has to blame America or he'll be lynched, and basically America can't defend the accusations because they do indeed waste the most, they sell arms to those countries -- and of course there is corruption in governement. Bush sure doesn't know what it's like t be poor - so why should he give a rats behind? And of course the conspiracy theories have to ensue because Cheney and crew are so closely linked to oil companies themselves that it's inevitable. Nothing makes more profit than oil - not even cables.

But America is not to blame my friends. America had a revolution to escape what they saw as tyrany - so so can the muslim world. Those countries are esentially 300-400 years behind the West. They still have religion dominating them the way the Kings did in England. Sooner or later enough will be enough and people will realize God in religious form is human made to keep control of the sheep. Until the sheep turn into wolves nothing will change. If all the citizens of Iran got together they could flatten their military and dictator and begin a new.

America is trying to help because they're worried about the advancement of their own technlogy falling into the hands of the nut jobs. I can't blame them for that. If you hate America so much then why do you keep buying stuff from them? Ahh their money is good enough.

Like I said before - the worst thing to happen to this planet was the creaation of Man.