I don't know how you resolve an impasse within the UN. And I agree to an extent that it's easy for people to just avoid the issues for years and hope they will go away. The American mentality you describe is very different from what I grew up with but I can see the strength in it. But you write as if you believe Might is Right: "I guess when a Country gets to be the most powerful? that indeed has its advantages". Do you then ignore everyone else even when your decisions directly affect them, as the current terrorist situation certainly does? Surely the significance of a problem like this demands that all nations pool their thinking and talent to find a creative solution. That cannot happen when one nation thinks (and states) "We know best"; that also seems to be the tone of your post. You assume America changes things for the better, but you didn't address the question at the end of my previous post regarding moderate Muslims. Does it not trouble you at all that WMD have not been found?