McCakie you really don't get it do you? America and Israel are not the source of all evil and I don't think even the most left wing liberal would be convinced they are. The trouble with these two countries is that they give themselves airs that other countries (Russia, China and India) don't.

Their hypocrisy and arrogance is beyond all human tolerance. There is no international law that they accept applies to them and their behavior on the world stage is obstructive.

Recently the invisible secretary of State was forced to apologize to Pakistan for attacking a Pakistani contingent with drones and causing many deaths. The apology was initially refused by America as it feels that it is beyond such niceties.

Pakistan that has lost at least 10 fold what America and all her allies combined in the war on terror had had enough and cut America's supply line to its troops on the Afghan/Pakistan border only then was the apology forthcoming. Pakistani lives are no cheaper than American lives.

In the 20th Century we witnessed two world wars and death and destruction on an untold scale. It is ironic that the only country in the history of the world to use atomic weapons, America, and the only country to have nuclear weapons in the Middle East that they refuse to disclose to IAEA inspection should gang up on Iran and accuse it of harboring intent of developing nuclear power for military use.

It is as if the Secretary of State had taken verbatim the play book that the Bush administration used to justify its unwarranted invasion and occupation of Iraq and has just substituted Iran for Iraq. Do they think that the world is so stupid as to buy the same lie twice?

Finally with the fall of the USSR many in the world thought that the 21st century would herald an unparalleled time of peace and prosperity. A country that holds itself to exceptionally high moral and ethical standards is America and yet it is their behavior as an unprincipled warmonger that are preventing peace in the world.

The only nation to use nukes, yes, and correctly so. There is no doubt that many more would have died in a continuation of the then format of war, a sharp shock that successfully proved to the Emperor a continuation was not only futile but pathetic did the job.
I have been to Saipan and Tinian (but not Rota) and have looked at the Suicide cliffs from several perspectives; they almost make the Gap look friendly. Hundreds of civilians jumped off them whilst not being perused, volcanic and coral rocks are particularly cruel. Anecdotally sharks were lunging onto the rocks to get at the mutilated bodies.