Right now, lives are being lost and billions spent to protect Americans from the increasing threat of terrorism. In this time when men, women and children around the world have been filled with hate and a desire for the destruction of the U.S., it is appropriate that Americans begin to ask, "Why Do They Hate Us?"

But who is "they?" It's not as if there's one group or solidified block of people united by experience, creed, or ethnicity that has decided to eliminate the United States. One of the great questions associated with the War on Terror is "Who or what are we trying to fight?"

Depending on what answer America discovers to these questions, the course of human lives, governments, and whole economies will be directed toward war, peace, or something in between. We need to do some investigation!