Christoph: hmmmm.... I think what you've described about american intrests has a name...imperialism.. The fanatics and radicals wouldn't exsist if it weren't for protecting the royal family... I think we can afford to pay a fair price for oil (the present price of oil means that's it's cheaper than spring water!!!!)... The whole thing isn't americas fault, I mean god knows that the Brits/ French and the italians were responsible for drawing "lines in the sand" (look at the borders of the arab countries, they all have straight borders in the middle of the dessert), and giving each country a differnt ruling system which meant that they couldn't unite again (just so you know that I dont blame everything on american foriegn policy, I mean god knows we did more than our fair share of wrongs...).
With this behaviour, you have to relize that when poeple retaliate it's not unprovoked... I relize we'll never live in an ideal world, but there is no harm in being more sensitive, and follow international law as opposed to the law of the jungle...

About that program "politically incorect", did the sponsers threatent to pull out when one of the guests said that the pilots were cowards, and the host guy said something like "hold on!... We fire missiles from 1000 miles away, but someone who stays on the plane till it hits is a coward?... you can call them anythig else, but not cowards" (that's not an quote, It's just roughly what he said)?