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"But regarding Billy Graham, he is fairly famous around the world from what I can tell, at least in English speaking countries with sizable Christian populations."

When people say "around the world" they tend to refer only to the first world, and the western one at that. Break that down into its more accurate percentages and it rapidly becomes the minority. This world is, for the most part, not western, not first world, and not English-speaking.

Pakistan is one such country. It is not English speaking, it is impoverished, and it has a sizable Muslim population.

If you were to truly look into the many and varied cultures and traditions that exist in this world today, you would realise most of them are not represented by the sweeping generalisation, "around the world." You would also realise that American as a country, an empire, and a culture, is still unknown to many of them. Thus any efforts to homogenise the world in the image of America, with all the trappings of "freedom," "democracy," commercialism and modernity, is as much ludicrous as it is naive.

It is these people, those who exist outside the narrow, shallow sweep of first world perception that are most often branded as "terrorists." Americans, in particular because it suits their country's imperial agenda, bandy about the term "terrorist" labelling all those who oppose them as such.

But in truth, many of these so-called "terrorists" are not driven by ideology, the are just fighting to provide food, water and shelter for themselves and their families. These things comes in increasingly short supply when they are in the midst of a war they understand little or nothing of. All they know is that strange jets and bombs blew up their farms, destroyed their livestock, and killed their families.

When American troops come waltzing through the desert sands, jungles or paddy fields they are as alien to them as creatures from another planet. These people do not know of America's geopolitical plans and its appetite for political expansion; many don't even know George Bush exists, much less who he is. Although are doing is fighting to stay alive. This is why, the more America continues its wars in others people's countries, invariably those of the third world, the more it will find more and more "terrorists" under every rock and behind every tree. And what is surprising only to them, is they weren't there the last time they looked.

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