Quote Originally Posted by shiningblue
And according to your logic, if we wanted to bomb Muslims, we could just go to Indonesia, which is the most populus Islamic nation, or Iran or Iraq immediately, or any other nations which have a larger Muslim population.
I expect that Indonesia is already on a "grey list" (not yet black) of the US, esp. for its terrorist attacks in the nightclub in Bali, the Australian embassy this week, etc. The main difference between Indonesia and Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan is that the Indonesian gov. is not extremist and has to cope with religious diversity (Muslims, Christians, Hindus, Animists...). Then, even most Indonesian Muslims are not very religious (from my experience of travelling there). Terrorists are just a minority group, fought by the government. But still Indonesia and the US are far from being friends (even more developed and pluri-cultural Malaysia is quite anti-American).

North Korea being on Bush's black list for being too communist?!?!? Maybe six active nuclear weapons in a region in which the US is trying to establish trade ties to Japan, S. Korea, China, Taiwan, etc. is the answer.
China has a much bigger nuclear capacity, much bigger army and hardly less crazy government, but the US tries hard to make friends with them, because 1) it would be too dangerous to fight them, and 2) they hope capitalism completely overtake communism soon.

And yes I am aware of the US's actions in South America and SE Asia, nothing we should be too proud of. But look at it this way (if possible) would you rather be living in a greedy, corrupted, capitalist state, or an oppressive, tyrannical, communist state? Both sides of the fight in any regions have nothing to be proud of (Shining Path, anyone???), so don't go blaming the whole thing on the US.
I don't only blame the US. The problem is that the US gov. tries too much to pressure other countries to go their way, and claim to be a reference of democracy and universal moral at the same time. China, Iran or Saudi Arabia don't.