"The Western conceit that its culture is so superior that it must impose it on others through missionary campaigns now many centuries old, through economic policies, through eduation, through foreign policies, through military enforcement, and through disparagement of other cultures, has bred a deep seated anger toward the prime exporters, the idea supremacists of state, church and family." A pity to see terrorist propaganda taken up in this place where reality should prevail. Western culture stopped spreading by force before WWII, but it's still in demand. Guess what - it IS superior! Not surprisingly, cultures based on individual rights and the cultivation of reason are more effective than those based on conformity and superstition. Sorry if you don't like that, but it's true. And it is that ineluctable FACT that the fanatics of 9/11 hate. They hate the fact that the people they want to control like our culture better. Marc de Piolenc Iligan, Lanao del Norte Philippines -- Remember September 11, 2001 but don't forget July 4, 1776 Rather than make war on the American people and their liberties, ...Congress should be looking for ways to empower them to protect themselves when warranted. They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin