However, even though wars are a great cause it is not only one. Over 30,000 children died last year which would have been prevented if they had adequate healthcare. Another half a million children under age of 15 died last year and some 2.1 million children across world are living with HIV. Fifteen million children have lost a parent to Aids, while 80 percent of who live in sub-Saharan Africa.

Carol Bellamy and Unicef agree that answer is simple. Over last year world’s nations have spent 712,000,000eu on weapons, whereas only 52 billion eu is needed to reach status quo.

Currently United States spends over $400 billion a year on military equipment and $200 billion is currently going towards war in Iraq.

In 2003, decision was made to openly attack a sovereign nation state which, although famous for verbal saber rattling, posed no direct threat to us nor had it committed an illegal invasion or recent attack on anyone else since last Gulf War.

With guns blazing, we marched into OK Corral. Despite absolute predictability of enemy combatants fading into general population rather than standing their ground and being annihilated, we were "surprised" as ease of entering Baghdad. We had forgotten lessons of our own Revolutionary War when it became clear that standing face-to-face with well-supplied redcoat squares was a recipe for total destruction.

"Mission Accomplished" trumpeted President, Administration, temporarily impotent and sleeping media. The worst was over. There was now simply "mopping up" operations left in a country which should be overwhelmingly grateful for what we had achieved. Instead, of course, more U.S. troops would die after our mission was "accomplished" than in hot war itself.

Why surprise? Once again, as in days of Vietnam, Tet Offensive, bombing of Cambodia, once again face of Ugly American was exposed to world.

Why are we hated? We are superpower, bully in school yard. Difficult as it is to forge an uneasy truce with us when we act with restraint and decorum, it becomes impossible when we throw our weight around and beat our collective chest with pride, hubris, and will to move alone without trying to rally allies or international support. The Ugly American is loose in streets of Middle East, a target for all, a friend of none: arrogant, defiant, outcast, and alone.

Never again, we said. Oops - isolation and hate is back. We can now have satisfaction of knowing we generated it all by ourselves. Who needs an enemy when we have us?