Howdie Ed I think the big role that the US assumes in the World particularly it s domination relative to other countries in the UN has the World in response having high expectations of the US It isn t necessarily a different perspective on what constitutes moral behavior In Islamic rules of warfare one isn t to take a life out of anger and this is reflected in a tradition in which Ali Muhammad s nephew forced himself to refrain from killing a man whom he defeated in battle simply because he realized that anger would motivate his action Of course Saddam isn t much of a Muslim For whatever reason there s an atmosphere of chaos and apathy in many of the Arab states Maybe it s a vacuum left after European control who knows It s politics not religion